[RESOLVED] Parsing dotted XML element names

[kamy99]

Hi;

I'm using this code to parse the XML file:

  $library = simplexml_load_file('ls.xml');
  foreach ($library->ls as $ls) 
      { echo $ls->id;
echo $ls->system.Status;}

This is working fine for elements which are in the format of:

<id>345</id>

But there are quite few elements that have dots in their name , like:

<system.Status>active</osType>

When I try to parse the second element, and use the same code, I run into problem, my output looks like:

345 Status

instead of

345 active

What should I do?

thank you in advance

[laserlight]

I suggest that you try both of these and see which one works:

$library = simplexml_load_file('ls.xml');
foreach ($library->ls as $ls)
{
    echo $ls->id;
    echo $ls->{'system.Status'};
}

$library = simplexml_load_file('ls.xml');
foreach ($library->ls as $ls)
{
    echo $ls->id;
    echo $ls->system_Status;
}

If neither work... then we'll have to dig deep into the PHP manual to find out what happens in such a case.

[kamy99]

Thank you laserlight !

The first solution works great.

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