Hi, From all XML parsers I tried I loved the most: www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1328.html The advantage is that you don't need any extra addons to php or anything else. It's pure php. Andrei Richard Luckhurst wrote: > Hi List > > I am sending this to the list again with a bit more information in the hope I > can get some help. > > There is a requirement to send a request to a server and I now have that working > using cURL, thanks to help from this list. I now have the responses coming back > as an XML response. What I need to do is to parse the XML response and break it > up into either an array or variables so I can pass the returned responses back > to a calling process. > > I have spent most of last night and today looking at XML parsing and now am > totally confused. Some testing I have done suggests that SimpleXML is not the > way to go however I am open to suggestions if it might be an answer. > > I have spent ages searching Google and looking at XML parser examples. Now I am > more confused than ever. > > I would appreciate any help or advice on how to parse this XML response and break it up > into either an array or individual variables. It is important for this > application to not only get the data contained between beginning and end tags > but also the attributes as they contain important data returned from the server. > I am the first to admit that PHP XML Parsing has me lost. > > One other question I do have is that all of the examples I have seen, using the > xml_parser, seem to be designed around a file being read into the parser. Is it > possible for the XML data to be contained in a variable and then used in the > parser? > > I have included a sample response from the server below. A few points to be > aware of, > > 1) In the fares section there could be any number of fares however each fare > will have a fareID and then the fareBases child. > 2) In the tarifs section there could be any number of tarifs however each tarif > will have a tarifId and then 1 or more fareXrefs. > 3) In the vcrSummary section there could be 1 or more vcr entries > 4) The response comes back as one long string and I have formatted this to make > it a little easier to read. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <?ypsilon RNGSchema="fareResponse.rnc" type="compact"?> > <fareResponse cntTarifs="122" offset="0"> > <fares> > <fare fareId="11429927" fareType="PUB" checked="false" class="V" depApt="SYD" dstApt="LON" paxType="ADT" vcr="OS" cos="E" yyFare="false" avail="false"> > <fareBases> > <fareBase pax="ADT">VLOX2</fareBase> > <fareBase pax="CHD">VLOX2</fareBase> > <fareBase pax="INF">VLOX2</fareBase> > </fareBases> > </fare> > <fare fareId="11429924" fareType="PUB" checked="false" class="M" depApt="SYD" dstApt="LON" paxType="ADT" vcr="OS" cos="E" yyFare="false" avail="false"> > <fareBases> > <fareBase pax="ADT">MLOW2</fareBase> > <fareBase pax="CHD">MLOW2</fareBase> > <fareBase pax="INF">MLOW2</fareBase> > </fareBases> > </fare> > </fares> > <tarifs currency="USD"> > <tarif tarifId="11429927" adtBuy="675.07" adtSell="675.07" chdBuy="675.07" chdSell="675.07" infBuy="675.07" infSell="675.07" topCar="false" topHotel="false"> > <fareXRefs> > <fareXRef>11429927</fareXRef> > </fareXRefs> > </tarif> > <tarif tarifId="11429926" adtBuy="714.83" adtSell="714.83" chdBuy="714.83" chdSell="714.83" infBuy="714.83" infSell="714.83" topCar="false" topHotel="false"> > <fareXRefs> > <fareXRef>11429926</fareXRef> > </fareXRefs> > </tarif> > </tarifs> > <taxes currency="USD"> > <tax vcr="OS">201.52</tax> > </taxes> > <vcrSummary> > <vcr minPrice="1667" maxPrice="1667" totalTarifs="1" currency="USD">AA</vcr> > <vcr minPrice="1374" maxPrice="4704" totalTarifs="2" currency="USD">PR</vcr> > </vcrSummary> > </fareResponse> > > > I would certainly appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > Richard Luckhurst > Product Development > Exodus Systems - Sydney, Australia. > rluckhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php