Posted by fido on 07/07/07 06:21

figured it out
When the attribute has a namespace eg.
<person ss:id=\"5\">John Doe</person>

you provide the namespace to the attributes as an argument
eg.

foreach($xml->people->person as $p)
foreach($p->attributes("http://crap") as $a => $b)
{
print "$a => $b<br />\n";
}

// id => 5 is now printed


fido wrote:
> Here's a bit of xml code that works.
>
> <?php
>
> $string =
> "<?xml version=\"1.0\" standalone=\"yes\"?>
> <world>
> <people xmlns:ss=\"http://crap\">
> <person id=\"5\">John Doe</person>
> <person id=\"2\">Susie Q. Public</person>
> </people>
> </world>";
>
> $xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
> print "<pre>\n";
> print_r($xml);
> print "</pre>\n";
>
> foreach($xml->people->person as $p)
> foreach($p->attributes() as $a => $b)
> {
> print "$a => $b<br />\n";
> }
>
> // prints out
> // id => 5
> // id => 2
> ?>
>
> Now what if I change the first person to this
> <person ss:id=\"5\">John Doe</person>
>
> Anyone know how to get the id?
>
> This is a question that is pertinent to an excel .xml file as
> you'll get lines like this
> <Cell ss:Index="3">stuff</Cell>
>
> btw: there is a guide on ibm that tells you how to do this with php and
> dom. I'm just wondering if there's a way to do it with simplexml.
>
> thx.

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