Parse xml/wsdl string with PHP

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I consumed using php-curl, a webservice API with soap-wsdl which doesn't return an xml object but a string like:

string(3854) "<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:u="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/ 01/oasis- 200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd"><s:Header><o:Security s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns:o="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ wss/2004/ 01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"><u:Timestamp u:Id="_0"><u:Created>2022-03-18T01:53:32.688Z</ u:Created> <u:Expires>2022-03-18T01:58:32.688Z</u:Expires></u:Timestamp></o:Security></s:Header><s:Body><UrbanList xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"><D"...

How to turn the content of this string into an xml and parse this to an array, object, json... anything but a string?

You should use SoapClient to parse the wsdl. Example: stackoverflow.com/a/8989609/1529324 — Andrea Olivato
– Andrea Olivato, Commented Mar 18, 2022 at 2:10
@AndreaOlivato but this is the only way ? i need only to convert the string to a true xml or any accessible object. — albert
– albert, Commented Mar 18, 2022 at 2:20
You can use a simplexml_load_string to just get an XML object but that's not the purpose of a wsdl — Andrea Olivato
– Andrea Olivato, Commented Mar 18, 2022 at 2:26
@AndreaOlivato simplexml dont work with string generated with complex xml like generated by wdsl. Always return null for me. — albert
– albert, Commented Mar 18, 2022 at 4:02

Zaid Naim · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-20 13:19:33Z

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Try this

$your_soap_string = 'YOUR SOAP STRING HERE';
$namespaces = ['s:', 'o:', 'u:']; // you need to add all if there are more
$clean_xml = str_ireplace($namespaces, '', $your_soap_string);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($clean_xml);

answered Mar 20, 2022 at 13:19

Zaid Naim

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