Posted by Richard Lynch on 04/06/05 07:05

On Fri, April 1, 2005 1:53 pm, Brian Dunning said:
> I've been looking at the XML commands and am feeling a bit overwhelmed.
> My needs are simple and I'm hoping there's an easy solution that I'm
> just missing. I have a hunk of well-formed XML in a variable, $xml, and
> it contains only one instance of <price>x.xx</price>. I just want to
> get the $price out of $xml. What's the simplest way?

Simplest?

$xml = file_get_contents('...');
$parts = explode('<price>', $xml);
$price = $parts[1];
$parts = explode('</price>', $price);
$price = $parts[0];

XML fans now all want to kill me, but there it is.

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