Tag Archives: SimpleXMLElement

The SimpleXMLElement Magic Wonder World in PHP

PHP’s Simplexml ships with a lot of magic to simplify access to an XML documents element and attribute node values. Some criticize this and suggest to use the DOM library instead. The DOM library on the other hand, even it … Continue reading

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part III and End

The previous two parts (Part I; Part II) did outline PHP’s standard behaviour when JSON encoding a SimpleXMLElement with json_encode(). As outlined this does not always fits the encoding needs and for some potential problems some workarounds have been showed. … Continue reading

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part II

In the previous post (Part I) I was giving a little overview for common woes turning a SimpleXMLElement into JSON when XML structural information is available that JSON is not capable to encode easily. The explanations given there were intended … Continue reading

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part I

With SimpleXMLElement it is often easy and looks like a very quick way to turn some XML into JSON. But not everything in PHP that has an easy interface works out of the box. In this three part series I’ll … Continue reading

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SimpleXML Type Cheatsheet

A SimpleXMLElement can represent many different things, from an element, to a list of attributes or childelements. Sometimes it’s good to know how to find out, especially with the magic the extension comes with. The following is a table with … Continue reading

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