parsing xml string

[negatv]

I'm having issues parsing an xml string that is stored in a MSSQL DB. The problem seems to be the syntax of the xml.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0"?><Page><Item id="1" autopts="1" pts="1"/><Item id="2" autopts="1" pts="1"/>....</Page>

I cannot parse this string, however if I rewrite the string in more "complete" xml such as:

<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?> <Page> <Item> <id>1</id> <autopts>1</autopts> <pts>1</pts> </Item>....</Page>

This works fine. I'm guessing it is a problem with the closing tags. I am currently using the simplexml functions, I have also tried dom.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can parse this string with the utils in PHP?

Thanks,

[Weedpacket]

Well, you haven't said what you're wanting to achieved or what you're experiencing. Nor have you illustrated the problem with any code.

For my part, I have no trouble with the sample XML you supply.

<?php
$xmlstr = '<?xml version="1.0"?><Page><Item id="1" autopts="1" pts="1"/><Item id="2" autopts="1" pts="1"/>...</Page> ';

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);

foreach($xml->Item as $item)
{
	echo 'Item '.$item['id'].' has pts '.$item['pts']."\n";
}

echo $xml->asXML();
?>

[negatv]

Thanks, I was going about it all wrong. My goal was to simply get access to the xml attributes for further processing.