Posted by Steve on 10/11/05 23:35

Hi,

I am new to XML and PHP and have a question that I hope someone could
answer.

Some background on my problem.
I am receiving an XML message over TCP/IP and need to access data
within the tags of the message.

Message example:
<message title="begin"
no="1"><description>Start</description></message>


Now I know I can get the data from the description tag by:

$xmlstr =<<<EOT
<message title="begin"
no="1"><description>Start</description></message>
EOT;

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
echo ($xml->description[0]);


My question is, how do I access 'title' or 'no' ?
Is it possible?

I cannot change the format of the data sent to me.
I am using PHP 5.0.5

Any help is appreciated.

Also, is this the best way of parsing the XML message?

Thank you

Steve

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