Read in XML nodes with attributes

[catapult74]

Hi all,

I have an XML file I need to read in. I can happily read in straight element nodes but I'm having problems reading nodes that have attributes.

This is the code I'm trying to read in:
<ImportResult>
<UniqueReference>test</UniqueReference>
<Success>True</Success>
<TamReference Action="InsertCustomer">TEST004</TamReference>
<TamReference Action="InsertCustomerPolicy">TEST004-1001001</TamReference>
<TamReference Action="InsertTransaction">TEST004-1001 38593</TamReference>
<ConnexionError />
<LastAction>InsertTransaction</LastAction>
</ImportResult>

As you can see I have 3 nodes with the same name each with a different attribute. I need to be able to read in the text for each of these nodes. I can manage it if the nodes are all named differently using the "getElementsByTagName()" function. I'm just using the "new DOMDocument()" function to handle the xml.

I am handling the XML like so:

//Create new DOM object
$doc = new DOMDocument();
//Load XML data into DOM
$doc->load( $path.basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']) );
//Create an array of elements

$results = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "ImportResult" );
foreach( $results as $result )
{
$resultStatus = $result->getElementsByTagName( "UniqueReference" );
$Status = $resultStatus->item(0)->nodeValue;

            echo $Status;

etc etc ...

If anyone can shed some light on how to get the data from the attributed nodes I would be extremely greatful. It's probably very simple but I'm going round in circles here 😕.

Thanks in advance

[cyberlew15]

	class tagparse
	{
		private $data;
		public $vals;
		function tagparse($DATA, $WHITE=1)
		{
			$index = array();
			$this->data = trim($DATA);
			$this->data = str_replace(" ", "[tagparse::space]", $this->data); // fix for  
			$this->data = preg_replace("/(<(\w+).*?>)(<\/\\2>)/", "\\1[tagparse::empty]\\3", $this->data); // fix for empty tags that do not use ommittag
			$this->vals = array();
			$parser = xml_parser_create();
			xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0);
			xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, $WHITE);
			if ( !xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $this->data, $this->vals, $index) )
				die("XML error: ".xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser))." at line ".xml_get_current_line_number($parser));
			xml_parser_free($parser);
			/*
			 * The code below is all for using of &nbsp; and empty tags that do not use ommittag
			 */
			$this->data = str_replace("[tagparse::space]", "&nbsp;", $this->data);
			$this->data = str_replace("[tagparse::empty]", "", $this->data);
			for($i = 0;$i<count($this->vals);$i++)
			{
				if(isset($this->vals[$i]['value']))
				{
					if(strstr($this->vals[$i]['value'], "[tagparse::space]") !== false)
						$this->vals[$i]['value'] = str_replace ("[tagparse::space]", "&nbsp;", $this->vals[$i]['value']);
					if(strstr($this->vals[$i]['value'], "[tagparse::empty]") !== false)
						$this->vals[$i]['value'] = str_replace ("[tagparse::empty]", "", $this->vals[$i]['value']);
				}
			}
		}
	}

this class will grab all of the data and put it into an array for you to access the array of values use

$test = new tagParse($xml);
print_r($test->vals); // this will display the array if you just want to do stuff with it use $test->vals

just a quick not to load in the file as a string use file_get_contents('filename');

the attributes etc are all there and available so just have a play

[catapult74]

Thanks for that class it's saved me a load of time.

I noticed we share the same problem, babies arm and all that, it's a bloody curse! 😃