Using SimpleXML

Below is an XML file:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"? > <> <>Tove< /to > <>Jani< /from > <>Reminder< /heading > <>Don't forget me this weekend!< /body > < /note >

We want to output the element names and data from the XML file above.

Here's what to do:

1. Load the XML file

2. Get the name of the first element

3. Create a loop that will trigger on each child node, using the children() function

4. Output the element name and data for each child node

Example

< ?php $xml = simplexml_load_file("test.xml"); echo $xml->getName() . " "; foreach($xml->children() as $child) { echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . " "; } ? >

The output of the code above will be:

note to: Tove from: Jani heading: Reminder body: Don't forget me this weekend!