Question

I am receiving an XML response based on a request I place to a server and it does in fact return a valid set of results that I can dump on the screen using print_r()
Result set looks like this(edit: this is the exact structure of the file):

<root>  
     <main_node1>  
         <value1>one</value1>  
         <value2>two</value2>  
     </main_node1>  
     <main_node2>  
         <anothervalue>whatever</anothervalue>  
     </main_node2>  
     <recordset>  
        <record>  
            <value1>one</value1>  
            <value2>two</value2>  
        </reocrd>  
        <record>  
            <value1>one</value1>  
            <value2>two</value2>  
        </reocrd>  
        <record>  
            <value1>one</value1>  
            <value2>two</value2>  
        </reocrd>  
     </recordset>  
</root>

when I use the line:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlRequest);
$records = $xml->recordset->record;  

I can walk through the $records array with a foreach loop without any problems however, when I try to access a specific record within the recordset using an index such as

$record = $xml->recordset->record[$index];  

I am getting a NULL valeu back. I also tried to cast the result into an (array) with no success so far.

Every document I looked at regarding simpleXML says that it is possible to access the XML node by index, can someone please tell me what I might be doing wrong here?

Edit: so recordset is not the root of the document yet I am able to use the $xml->recordset->record notation to load a list of records in to my $records variable and print it out using the foreach loop.

Answer 1

I resolved my issue by using

$records = $xml->xpath('//record'); 

notation and I am now able to access any record by their index.

Thank you for trying, I appreciate your efforts.