SimpleXML: convert xml to text

Hello, I want to convert some xml stuff to simple string using php, say:


$string = << left center1okcenter2right
XML;

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
echo $xml;
?>
The code will output "left right" while all the central stuff was lost.
How should I print it as "left center1 ok center2 right" ?

Thanks in advance, and please Cc me. :)

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Re: SimpleXML: convert xml to text

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On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 21:58 +0800, Dasn wrote:

> Hello, I want to convert some xml stuff to simple string using php, say:
>
> >
> $string = << > left center1okcenter2right
> XML;
>
> $xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
> echo $xml;
> ?>
> The code will output "left right" while all the central stuff was lost.
> How should I print it as "left center1 ok center2 right" ?
>
> Thanks in advance, and please Cc me. :)
>
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> Dasn
>
>


Can't you just call strip_tags() on the string? As you don't need to
echo any attribute values, I would have thought it would be perfect. As
XML is meant to be well-formed anyway, strip_tags shouldn't cause any
problems with broken or missing closing tags.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk



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Re: SimpleXML: convert xml to text

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:02:22 +0800, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 21:58 +0800, Dasn wrote:
>
>> Hello, I want to convert some xml stuff to simple string using php, say:
>>
>> >>
>> $string = << >> left center1okcenter2right
>> XML;
>>
>> $xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
>> echo $xml;
>> ?>
>> The code will output "left right" while all the central stuff was lost.
>> How should I print it as "left center1 ok center2 right" ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, and please Cc me. :)
>>
>
>
> Can't you just call strip_tags() on the string? As you don't need to
> echo any attribute values, I would have thought it would be perfect. As
> XML is meant to be well-formed anyway, strip_tags shouldn't cause any
> problems with broken or missing closing tags.
>
Thanks Ashley for your reply.
Sorry that my description was not clear enough.
Actually I don't want to just strip the tags, sometimes I also wanna
change some elements. For another example:
"blastrip_tagsbla". When output, I also want
to make some change to the data depending on the tags, say, trying to
append a pair of "()" to the "" element, printing it as "bla
strip_tags() bla".
The problem is when I processing the nodes with SimpleXML, I couldn't get
the right order of the data. That is :
"echo $xml->a, (string) $xml->a->function . '()'" // prints "bla bla
strip_tags()"

Thank you anyway. Cc please.

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Re: SimpleXML: convert xml to text

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:02:22 +0800, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 21:58 +0800, Dasn wrote:
>
>> Hello, I want to convert some xml stuff to simple string using php, say:
>>
>> >>
>> $string = << >> left center1okcenter2right
>> XML;
>>
>> $xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
>> echo $xml;
>> ?>
>> The code will output "left right" while all the central stuff was lost.
>> How should I print it as "left center1 ok center2 right" ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, and please Cc me. :)
>>

Well I change to use xmlparser instead, never mind. :)

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