Question

I would like to print out "depth 17 - 1 enclosed by 20m contour "

Below is xml string loaded from a xml file version 1.0 by $xml = simplexml_load_file("test.xml");

<object>
  depth 
 <emphasis>
  17 
   <subscript>1</subscript> 
 </emphasis>
  enclosed by 20m contour 
</object>


print_r($Vals->object);
//prints "depth enclosed by 20m contour "


$Vals->object->emphasis.' - '.$Vals->object->emphasis->subscript
//prints "17 - 1"

I can print string by replacing the values "depth" with depth $Vals->object->emphasis.' - '.$Vals->object->emphasis->subscript. Its not the good thing becoz there may also have a ‘depth’ in string and also width may have at the location of depth.

Till now i am trying with below code, Saw at Go to Question

echo dom_import_simplexml($Vals->object)->textContent;

This code could not do the job and also make the system to so slow. No error generating.

Answer 1

You are looking for strval.

Given this code:

$xml = simplexml_load_file("test.xml");

You can do:

print strval($xml->emphasis->subscript); // prints '1'
print strval($xml); //prints 'depth enclosed by 20m contour'
...

And so on, you can combine them yourself to the string you want.