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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simplexml and xml namespaces
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Sterling Hughes wrote:
> Hm - that shouldn't be.  
> 
> I think the right solution is that media:title should not show up in
> the children of node, unless you are looking at the proper namespace,
> ie, you need to use children() to get the children in that namespace.

Ah, you are right.  It's the damn var_dump() problem again.
eg.

$xml = <<<EOF
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss">
 <node>
  <title>Title</title>
  <media:title>Media Title</media:title>
 </node>
</rss>
EOF;
$x = simplexml_load_string($xml);

var_dump($x->node) shows:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (1) {
  ["title"]=>
  array(2) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "Title"
    [1]=>
    string(11) "Media Title"
  }
}

but var_dump($x->node->title) shows:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#4 (1) {
  [0]=>
  string(6) "Title"
}

There should be a simplexml_dump() or something along those lines and
perhaps even a warning in var_dump() when it tries to dump an object
that has its own iterator.

-Rasmus