Re: [PHP] 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:
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $string = <<<XML
>> <a> left <foo>center1<ok>ok</ok>center2</foo>right </a>
>> 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:  
"<a>bla<function>strip_tags</function>bla</a>". 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 "<function>" 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.

-- 
Dasn