Hi, i'm trying to parse my XML string into a simplexml object and later retrieve it through xpath function.
In the example below, only xmlns with name "http://google.com/API/XSD/SearchQ.xsd" is used when calling getNamespaces() to check.
Since it didn't have any name, i had to register it with registerXPathNamespace() for it to work.
My question is..is it possible to use xpath without registering the namespace, even if xmlns="http://google.com/API/XSD/SearchQ.xsd" is used ?
<html>
<body>
<?php
$xdata = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>".
//"<SearchRecords xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns=\"http://google.com/API/XSD/SearchQ.xsd\">".
"<SearchRecords xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">".
"<SearchParameters>".
"<Parameter>".
"<Name>lastname</Name>".
"<Value>Goober</Value>".
"</Parameter>".
"<Parameter>".
"<Name>firstname</Name>".
"<Value>Snazzy</Value>".
"</Parameter>".
"</SearchParameters>".
"</SearchRecords>";
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xdata);
echo "<br>namespaces that are used : ";
$namespace = $xml->getNamespaces();
foreach($namespace as $key => $value){
echo "$key - $value <br>";
}
//use this if xmlns="http://google.com/API/XSD/SearchQ.xsd" is used in SearchRecords tag
//$xml->registerXPathNamespace("mynewns", "http://google.com/API/XSD/SearchQ.xsd");
//$result = $xml->xpath('//mynewns:SearchRecords');
//uncomment this to see it doesn't work, error caused by
// xmlns="http://google.com/API/XSD/SearchQ.xsd"
// Remove it from SearchRecords tags to get it work.
$result = $xml->xpath('//SearchRecords');
echo "SearchRecords array has a size of : " . sizeof($xml) . "<br><br>";
echo "dumping array...<br>";
var_dump($result);
?>
</body>
