Re: Getting data from XML

Eamon Reyn wrote:
> Hey People,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could point me to an example or give me an example
> of data extraction from an XML document where you do not necessarily know
> the contents of the XML document.
> 
> I am using PHP 5 RC3 and can see a lot of references to methods like
> getelementbytagname or getbyid etc but what if the data I am getting is not
> what I expected however I still want to display it.
> 
> How do I go about this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Eamon.

The easy way to do this is to use SimpleXML and then iterate over each element 
with a foreach().  You could put this into a function if you want to recursively 
iterate through every element in the document.