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How to write CDATA using SimpleXmlElement?

April 7, 2023 by Tarik

Got it! I adapted the code from this great solution (archived version): <?php // http://coffeerings.posterous.com/php-simplexml-and-cdata class SimpleXMLExtended extends SimpleXMLElement { public function addCData( $cdata_text ) { $node = dom_import_simplexml( $this ); $no = $node->ownerDocument; $node->appendChild( $no->createCDATASection( $cdata_text ) ); } } $xmlFile=”config.xml”; // instead of $xml = new SimpleXMLElement( ‘<site/>’ ); $xml = new SimpleXMLExtended( … Read more

Remove a child with a specific attribute, in SimpleXML for PHP

April 6, 2023 by Tarik

While SimpleXML provides a way to remove XML nodes, its modification capabilities are somewhat limited. One other solution is to resort to using the DOM extension. dom_import_simplexml() will help you with converting your SimpleXMLElement into a DOMElement. Just some example code (tested with PHP 5.2.5): $data=”<data> <seg id=”A1″/> <seg id=”A5″/> <seg id=”A12″/> <seg id=”A29″/> <seg … Read more

Parse XML with Namespace using SimpleXML [duplicate]

April 4, 2023 by Tarik

it does work without registerXPathNamespace and the full namespace prefix in the xpath queries: $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($r); foreach($xml->xpath(‘//event:event’) as $event) { var_export($event->xpath(‘event:sessionKey’)); }

How check if a String is a Valid XML with-out Displaying a Warning in PHP

March 9, 2023 by Tarik

Use libxml_use_internal_errors() to suppress all XML errors, and libxml_get_errors() to iterate over them afterwards. Simple XML loading string libxml_use_internal_errors(true); $doc = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr); $xml = explode(“\n”, $xmlstr); if (!$doc) { $errors = libxml_get_errors(); foreach ($errors as $error) { echo display_xml_error($error, $xml); } libxml_clear_errors(); }

php SimpleXML check if a child exists

March 9, 2023 by Tarik

It might be better to wrap this in an isset() if(isset($A->b->c)) { // c exists That way if $A or $A->b don’t exist… it doesn’t blow up.

Unterminated entity reference in PHP

March 8, 2023 by Tarik

This correctly encodes the & < > and “” ” $parent->addChild($name, htmlspecialchars($value));

Error: “Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !” using PHP’s simplexml_load_string

March 4, 2023 by Tarik

Your 0xED 0x6E 0x2C 0x20 bytes correspond to “ín, ” in ISO-8859-1, so it looks like your content is in ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. Tell your data provider about it and ask them to fix it, because if it doesn’t work for you it probably doesn’t work for other people either. Now there are a few … Read more

What’s the difference between PHP’s DOM and SimpleXML extensions?

February 23, 2023 by Tarik

In a nutshell: SimpleXml is for simple XML and/or simple UseCases limited API to work with nodes (e.g. cannot program to an interface that much) all nodes are of the same kind (element node is the same as attribute node) nodes are magically accessible, e.g. $root->foo->bar[‘attribute’] DOM is for any XML UseCase you might have … Read more

Using SimpleXML to create an XML object from scratch

February 4, 2023 by Tarik

Sure you can. Eg. <?php $newsXML = new SimpleXMLElement(“<news></news>”); $newsXML->addAttribute(‘newsPagePrefix’, ‘value goes here’); $newsIntro = $newsXML->addChild(‘content’); $newsIntro->addAttribute(‘type’, ‘latest’); Header(‘Content-type: text/xml’); echo $newsXML->asXML(); ?> Output <?xml version=”1.0″?> <news newsPagePrefix=”value goes here”> <content type=”latest”/> </news> Have fun.

Forcing a SimpleXML Object to a string, regardless of context

February 4, 2023 by Tarik

Typecast the SimpleXMLObject to a string: $foo = array( (string) $xml->channel->item->title ); The above code internally calls __toString() on the SimpleXMLObject. This method is not publicly available, as it interferes with the mapping scheme of the SimpleXMLObject, but it can still be invoked in the above manner.