Question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mainXML>
    <items>
        <item category="Dekorationer" name="Flot væg" description="Meget flot væg. Passer alle stuer." price="149" />
        <item category="Fritid" name="Fodbold" description="Meget rund bold. Rørt af messi." price="600" />
    </items>
</mainXML>

How can i read this?

So i can make like a php loop that outputs the category, name and description for example?

I tried and started out with this:

    $doc = new DOMDocument();
    $doc->load( 'ex.xml' );

    $items = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "item" );
    foreach( $items as $item )
    {
        $categorys = $item->getElementsByTagName( "category" );
        $category = $categorys->item(0)->nodeValue;

        echo $category . " -- ";
    }

Answer 1

category is an attribute (not a tag). See XML^Wikipedia. To obtain it via the DOMElement, use getAttribute()^Docs:

foreach ($items as $item)
{
    $category = $item->getAttribute('category');
    echo $category, ' -- ';
}

Same for description, just change the name of the attribute to obtain:

foreach ($items as $item)
{
    echo 'Category: ', $item->getAttribute("category"), "\n",
         'Description: ', $item->getAttribute("description"), ' -- ';
}