Hi Ashley, Thank you very much for your help. simplexml handles namespace. here is the link for reference http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/10/20/simplexml-and-namespaces/ I am very happy. Thank you very much again. :D On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 18:00 +0530, Devendra Jadhav wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am writing module to display recent Wordpress blog posts in drupal. > I am taking RSS feeds of blog. I am using simple xml library of PHP to parse > xml. > Now the problem is I get weird tag in XML. > <dc:creator>Jason Bourne</dc:creator> > when i convert this xml into object by using simplexml_load_string I am not > getting dc:creator in the object as dc:creator is not valid variable name. > can someone tell me how to access it? > appreciate your help > > > > > > It's not a weird XML tag, it's a namespace. The tag is <creator> and it's > within the dc namespace. I've not used simplexml before, but I believe it > handles namespaces. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- Devendra Jadhav देवेंद्र जाधव