Question

I’m a beginner and I really need your help!
I have an XML file to parse in PHP with a list of empty elements :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<elements attribute="value" attribute="value">
  <element attribute="value" attribute="value" attribute="value" />
  <element attribute="value" attribute="value" attribute="value" />
  <element attribute="value" attribute="value" attribute="value" />
  <element attribute="value" attribute="value" attribute="value" />
  ...
</elements>

How can I get the value of each attribute in the “element” nodes ? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Why you posted an invalid XML? Did you mean –

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<elements attribute1="value" attribute2="value">
    <element attribute1="value" attribute2="value" attribute3="value" />
    <element attribute1="value" attribute2="value" attribute3="value" />
    <element attribute1="value" attribute2="value" attribute3="value" />
    <element attribute1="value" attribute2="value" attribute3="value" />
</elements>

In that case you SimpleXML (http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.attributes.php)