I'm trying to parse the following XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE content PUBLIC "-//BLACKWELL PUBLISHING GROUP//DTD 4.0//EN" "http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/xml/dtds/4-0/bpg4-0.dtd"> <content dtdver="4.0" docfmt="xml"> .... <forenames>NIELS BØIE</forenames><x> </x> At first it wouldn't lo...
if I use Firefox and access http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1 I get some sort of XML in respose, when I do that through PHP I get Internal Server Error 500 $ php -r 'print_r(simplexml_load_file("http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1"));' PHP Warning: simplexml_load_file(http://svcs.ebay.com/servic...
I have to parse externally provided XML that has attributes with line breaks in them. Using SimpleXML, the line breaks seem to be lost. According to another stackoverflow question, line breaks should be valid (even though far less than ideal!) for XML. Why are they lost? [edit] And how can I preserve them? [/edit] Here is a demo fil...
I'm new to PHP and this may be a stupid question to ask, so don't vote me down just because I don't understand something... php -r "print_r(simplexml_load_file('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/31139114.rss'));" let's take this for an example, by running this command i get (on screen) XML output. my question is it possible t...
Hi. I'm fetching lots of user data via last.fm's API for my mashup. I do this every week as I have to collect listening data. I fetch the data through their REST API and XML: more specifically simplexml_load_file(). The script is taking ridiculously long. For about 2 300 users, the script takes 30min to fetch only the names of artists....
I'm trying to parse data from Archive.org's search functionality. The data looks like this: <doc> <float name="avg_rating">5.0</float> <arr name="collection"><str>U-Melt</str><str>etree</str></arr> <arr name="format"><str>Checksums</str><str>Flac</str><str>Flac FingerPrint</str> <str>Metadata</str><str>Ogg Vorbis</str><st...
Hi Guys, I have an xml file that I want to store a node's rank attribute in a variable. I tried: echo $var = $xmlobj->xpath("//Listing[@rank]"); to no avail, it just prints ArrayArray. How can this be done? if($xmlobj = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents($xml_feed))) { foreach($xmlobj as $listing) { ...
A function in my application does the following: Capture Web Page using Snoopy Load result into DOMDocument Load DOMDocument into Simple XML Object Run XPath to isolate section of document required json_encode the result and save to database for later use. My problem arises when recovering this block from the database, and decoding i...
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/share_posts.php?id=207302593&viewer=207302593&key=d95b2de790&format=rss20 The link above is the URL to my shared posts on Facebook. When I load that URL in to simplexml_load_file() it provides an entire page of errors. Looking at the errors, it looks like Facebook is spitting out HTML instead of...
I've been trying to parse this feed. If you click on that link, you'll notice that it can't even parse it correctly in the browser. Anyway, my hosting service won't let me use simplexml_load_file, so I've been using cURL to get it then loading the string into the DOM, like this: $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->loadXML($rawXML); if (!$dom...
The below function should be outputting a Vimeo thumbnail. Its not returning anything. I have tested for $id and it is passing into the function, and it is a valid vimeo ID for a video. When I replace the $out = xxx with $out = 'hello'; , nothing comes out. This leads me to believe no records are being returned in the xml call. Curl...
If the format is the following, where c is an object array that I must foreach through each iteration: $a->b->c And I do: $z = $a->b foreach($z as $key => $value) echo $value['field']; $key comes up as null, even though I have valid values. How do I get the name of the object? ...
how do i get the list of children in xml->request->ABC ABC may have DEF, ZZA, XAS, ETC and i would like to iterate through a list of these children (name required) instead of checking if they exist. -edit- Note: I am looking for the element name. I found an example which returns an attribute IF its known. How do i get the tag/element na...
Using PHP's SimpleXML i would like to get the key and child of an element. The first element if there are more then one. How do i do this? the 2nd line doesnt make sense so how would get the first key/val of the first element? $body = $xml->Body; $xml->Body->children() as $XX=>$ZZ; echo "x $XX $ZZ\n"; foreach($xml->Body->children() as $...
Hi, I'm having a problem with SimpleXML. When I'm using the children() method to get the contents of an XML element, with elements that contain HTML, it will parse the HTML contents as XML. How would I make it so that it won't parse HTML? ...
How can I parse an XML document like this: <feed> <item> <element-name>Element value</element-name> </item> </feed> If I try the following, it doesn't work: $xmlObject = simplexml_load_string($xmlString); foreach($xmlObject->item as $item) { $elementName= $item->element-name; // Obviously doesn't work. } I've tried: $...
A->b->c might exist but c might not exist. How do i check it? ...
I'm using XPath to select an section from an HTML page. However when I use XPath to extract the node, it correctly selects only the text surrounding the HTML tags and not the HTML tags themselves. Sample HTML <body> <div> At first glance you may ask, “what <i>exactly</i> do you mean?” It means that we want ...
I have written an XML file which is using the ISO-8859-15 encoding and most of the data within the feed is ran through htmlspecialchars(). I am then using simplyxml_load_string() to retrieve the contents of the XML file to use in my script. However, if I have any special characters (ie: é á ó) it comes out as "é á ó". The How can I ...
I've been trying to use SimpleXML, but it doesn't seem to like XML that looks like this: <xhtml:div>sample <xhtml:em>italic</xhtml:em> text</xhtml:div> So what library will handle tags that look like that (have a colon in them)? ...