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
– Waygood, Commented Mar 21, 2013 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
– Amelia, Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 11:30
You first need to register the namespace im before accessing the attribute. — Johannes Klauß
– Johannes Klauß, Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 11:34

Passerby · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21 11:48:03Z

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, 2013 at 11:48

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Devang Rathod · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21 11:34:40Z

0

Not sure but maybe something like this

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

answered Mar 21, 2013 at 11:34

Devang Rathod

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