| PHP & Xpath query
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breham
msg:3938064 | 8:37 am on Jun 22, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I have a routine to parse xml which usually works fine but am having an issue with one particular XML file. usually I have a structure of <person>
<name>Joe Bloggs</name>
<age>21</age>
</person>
<person>
<name>Sarah Bloggs</name>
<age>25</age>
</person>
Which I usually parse with a string like this: foreach ($xml->xpath('//name') as $names) { I have another XML file which has a different format and takes the following format:
<Names>
<name>Joe Bloggs</name>
<age>21</age>
</Names>
<Names>
<name>Sarah Bloggs</name>
<age>25</age>
</Names>
The problem I've got is that because the top level is also contains the phrase names which I search for with XPath - the parsing doesn't work. Any suggestions gratefully received
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azazello
msg:3938088 | 9:53 am on Jun 22, 2009 (gmt 0) |
You need to wrap your XML in a top level element. How about something like :- [pre]$xml=<<<XML
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<doc>
<person>
<name>Joe Bloggs</name>
<age>21</age>
</person>
<person>
<name>Sarah Bloggs</name>
<age>25</age>
</person>
</doc>
XML; $doc=new SimpleXMLElement($xml); var_dump($doc->xpath('//person/name')); [/pre]
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breham
msg:3938192 | 1:08 pm on Jun 22, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Hi, thanks for that but I can not alter the XML, it is sent to me via the web, also the XML that starts Person is fine to process - it's the one that starts Names that is the issue. thanks again, any other ideas thoguh?
Brett
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