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im having trouble using simplexml to read an xml file that uses a namespace prefix. heres my xml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mu:mash xmlns:mu="#"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="#" title="m3net" author=".clicky">
<mu:img id="test" src="http://a345.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/64/m_d347d48c72b56a7e06decb94da2f84c8.jpg"/>
</mu:mash>

and heres my php

PHP:

<?php
class XMLParser {

    var $xml;
    var $currentTag;
    
    function XMLParser($str) {
        $this->xml = simplexml_load_file($str);
        echo("Mashup: ".$this->xml['title']." by ".$this->xml['author']."<br/><br/>");
    }
    
    function readChildNodes() {
        echo("hello");
        foreach ($this->xml->children() as $item) {
            echo($item['src']);
        }
    }
}

$xml_p = new XMLParser(url);
$xml_p->readChildNodes();
?>

it works fine upto the readChildNodes() function. this only works when i remove the mu: namespace prefix from the <img> tag. any ideas?

Last edited by sapphire, June 9th, 2007 10:43 PM (Edited 1 times)

You need to pass the URI of the namespace to the children-Method in order to get children with the mu-NS:

PHP:

<?php
function readChildNodes() {
    echo("hello");
    foreach ($this->xml->children('#') as $item) {
        echo($item['src']);
    }
}
?>