Question

Hi can anyone show me how I can read xml tags with their values with SimpleXML btw. I am building an android app.

I need to get all tags and values that are inside the root element:

<RootElement>
   <UnknownTab>UnkownValue</UnkownTab>
   <AnotherUnknownTab>UnkownValue</AnotherUnknownTab>
</RootElement>

The number of elements inside the RootElement is also unkown and can be different everytime.

UPDATE:

I am already using SimpleXml for every other serialization I am doing so i don’t want to use another XML-parsing tool.
The question is how to do this with SimpleXml and not how to serialize a xml.

UPDATE 2:
I have reviewed the XML (its a bit complex) the definition is the following:

xsd-definition:

<element-sequence> 
   <element name="actualName" ..../>
   <element name="actualName" ..../>
   <element name="actualName" ..../>
   .
   .
   .
</element-sequence>

the size of element-sequence is variable
and the tags of the elements inside the RootElement are the actualNames

<RootElement>
   <actualName>UnkownValue</actualName>
   <actualName>UnkownValue</actualName>
   .
   .
   .
</RootElement>

Is there any way to serialize this, if possible with SimpleXML

Answer 1

Looks like this is impossible using SimpleXML, done the job using XPath.