[geny]

Hi ,
There is this link -> http://data.giub.uni-bonn.de/openrou...tructions=true !

Where I want to extract 2 things (shown below in BOLD):
<xls:Instruction>Drive half left on Kaiserstraße</xls:Instruction>
<xls:distance value="284" uom="YD"/>

So,far I tried :

PHP Code:

$url="url_just_shown_above";
$output = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($output);
echo $xml->{'xls:RouteInstruction'}->{'xls:Instruction'}."<br />";

but it does not helps, for attribute,I used :
$xml = simplexml_load_file("url_just_shown_above");

foreach($xml->{'xls:distance[5]'}->attributes() as $a => $b)
  {
  echo $a,'="',$b,"\"</br>";
  } 


it shows nothing either.
The var_dump($xml); shows :

object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { ["@attributes"]=> array(1) { ["version"]=> string(3) "1.1" } }

Please help me extracting the BOLDed text from the XML file mentioned above..What wrong am I doing ? Any kind of guidance or CODE Snippet will be of great help..Will greatly appreciate the same.. Thanks a lot !

[Wolf1994]

Why not to use a regular expressions?

Something like this:

preg_match_all ("/\<xls\:Instruction\>(.*)\<\/xls\:Instruction\>/U", $output, $match0);
print_r ($match0);

preg_match_all ('/\<xls\:distance value\=\"([0-9]+)\" uom\=\"YD\"\/\>/U', $output, $match1);
print_r ($match1);

[Jcbones]

Using your xml file, I'm getting namespace errors throughout the file using simpleXML.

[Nico]

PHP Code:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($long_url);

print_r($xml->children('http://www.opengis.net/xls')); 


[Jcbones]

Well the namespace files finally started working.

PHP Code:

<?php

echo '<pre>';
$xml = simplexml_load_file("$PUTthatHUGExmlFILEurlHERE");

foreach($xml->xpath('//xls:RouteInstruction/*') as $v)
    {
        print (isset($v[0][0]->attributes()->value)) ? $v[0][0]->attributes()->value . ' Kilometers <br/>' : $v[0][0] . '<br/>';
    }


echo '</pre>';


?>

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