Adding node using PHP's SimpleXML to XML with namespaces.

Question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?>
    <!DOCTYPE pasaz:Envelope SYSTEM "loadOffers.dtd">
    <pasaz:Envelope xmlns:pasaz="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;
        <pasaz:Body>
            <loadOffers xmlns="urn:ExportB2B">
                <offers />
            </loadOffers>
        </pasaz:Body>
    </pasaz:Envelope>

I've to add some child nodes to "offers" node and I'm using SimpleXML.

The PHP code: $offer = $xml->offers->addChild('offer') returns an error.

It's all wrong because I've got problem with handling namespaces in SimpleXML! Please help!

Answer 1

E.g. by using xpath the get the target/parent element.

<?php
$envelope = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?>
<!DOCTYPE pasaz:Envelope SYSTEM "loadOffers.dtd">
<pasaz:Envelope xmlns:pasaz="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;
  <pasaz:Body>
    <loadOffers xmlns="urn:ExportB2B">
      <offers />
    </loadOffers>
  </pasaz:Body>
</pasaz:Envelope>');

$envelope->registerXPathNamespace('pasaz', 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/');
$envelope->registerXPathNamespace('b2b', 'urn:ExportB2B');
$ns = $envelope->xpath('//pasaz:Body/b2b:loadOffers/b2b:offers');
if ( 0<count($ns) ) {
  $offers = $ns[0];
  $offers->a = 'abc';
  $offers->x = 'xyz';
}
echo $envelope->asXml();

prints

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?>
<!DOCTYPE pasaz:Envelope SYSTEM "loadOffers.dtd">
<pasaz:Envelope xmlns:pasaz="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;
  <pasaz:Body>
    <loadOffers xmlns="urn:ExportB2B">
      <offers><a>abc</a><x>xyz</x></offers>
    </loadOffers>
  </pasaz:Body>
</pasaz:Envelope>