Question

I’m having issues attempting to parse an XML file I’m pulling in from another site with SimpleXML. I need to display the rent for certain properties. However, I only want to display the rent for certain properties. I’ve never seen an XML file structured in this manner: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1925679/example.xml

First, how would I parse through this file based on

Property->PropertyID->MITS:Identification->MITS:PrimaryID

Then, echo out the Property->Floorplan->MarketRent(Min and Max) based on an ID?

TIA!!!!

Answer 1

// get all properties
$properties = $xml->xpath('//Property');

// get document namesapces in prefix => uri format
$namespaces = $xml->getNamespaces(true);


foreach($properies as $property)
{
   // get namespaced nodes
   $identification = $property->PropertyID->children($namespaces['MITS']);
   $id = $identification->children($namespaces['MITS'])->PrimaryID;

   // do your check id is an expected value or whatever and if so then...

   foreach($property->Floorplan as $floorplan){
   {
      echo $floorplan->MarketRent['min'];
      echo $floorplan->MarketRent['max'];
   }
}

You could probably com up with an xpath query to ONLY select properties with a given id or set of ids straight away so then you would only have to loop over them and invoke the floorplan loop but ill leave that to your investigation 🙂 I will say though if you go that route, you will need to register the namespaces with xpath i think. Pretty sure thats not automatic.