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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simplexml and xml namespaces
From: johnjawed@gmail.com (john)

Long time reader, first time poster.

Rasmus, I noticed your var_dump says $x->node->title is of string(6) ... 
though I count only 5. Just wondering, a simple typo or something more 
involved?

Regards,
John

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> 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