Parse XML with a colon attribute in PHP

Question

I'd have the following XML structure:

<entry>
    <id im:id="595831580">blabla</id>
</entry>

Now I want to parse the id 595831580.

I tried:

$idAtt = $xml->entry->id;
$id = $idAtt->attributes();
$id2 = $id['im:id'];

But this does not work :(

How can I fix it?

if the xml is a string, did you `simplexml_load_string();` it, to convert to an object? what does `var_dump($xml);` show? — Waygood, Mar 21 '13 at 11:30
You have to parse XML with an XML parser and create an object out of it to even have a hope of parsing it reliably; show us what you're using — Amelia, Mar 21 '13 at 11:30
You first need to register the namespace `im` before accessing the attribute. — Johannes Klauß, Mar 21 '13 at 11:34
Checkout [this comment](http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.attributes.php#108029). `$idAtt->attributes("im",true)->id`. — Passerby, Mar 21 '13 at 11:35

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '13 at 11:48

5

Alright.

You can't use namespace in offsetGet method of SimpleXMLElement, but you can in attributes method:

echo $xml->entry->id->attributes("im",TRUE)->id;

Check out this comment for one more demo.

answered Mar 21 '13 at 11:48

Passerby

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '13 at 11:34

0

Not sure but maybe something like this

$attr = $xml->id[0]->attributes();
echo $attr['im:id'];

answered Mar 21 '13 at 11:34

Devang Rathod

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