soap response to xml (simple_xml)

Question

Hi i am trying to convert a soap response to XML.

Soap has an envelop and a body

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
<soap:Body>

When try to convert

$responseXML = simplexml_load_string($string);

I get

object(SimpleXMLElement)#20 (0) { } 

If i edit the $string as soap-Envelope and soap-Body i can get the XML

Whats wrong with : and can not get XML

I hope its clear.

Anyone

Answer 1

SimpleXML requires special treatment for namespaced XML (ref.)

Answer 2

A SOAP message is already XML. The problem is that it has namespaces so you have to access it differently. (The part before the colon is the identifier for the namespace.)

Here is an example of using namespaces with SimpleXML.
Here is a specific example for reading SOAP messages.