Question

I’m trying to parse some xml using simplexml and php…it’s being returned to me from a service like so:

<DMResponse><Code>2</Code><Description>Your request was successfully received You will        receive notification once the process has been completed.</Description><ResultData><Explanation>     The job name is 578bbn004 </Explanation></ResultData></DMResponse>

I pasted this from the .net panel in firebug.

This is how I’m trying to parse is using php:

$result = curl_exec($ch);
print 'xml ' . $result . ' xml';
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($result);
$code = $xml->code;
echo $code;

$result is deinfitely populated…I get it back in the print statement above….it contains the xml structure I’ve posted.

The error I’m getting is ‘String could not be parsed as XML’. I don’t understand why it’s doing this. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try $xml = simplexml_load_string($result); … I’ve never done it the way you’re doing it. That’s not to say that it won’t work, though.

Edit: If simplexml_load_string() doesn’t work, your string may contain some (nonprintable) invalid characters or something like that.