Working with namespaced elements is annoying, with SimpleXML. You can recognise namespaces by xmlns:...="..." attributes, and <foo:name tags.
A better option would be to use the DOM family of classes and functions.
Here's a basic example that grabs the <ax21:...> elements from your XML and throws them into an array.
<?php
$xml = <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Body>
<ns:getReportTestResponse xmlns:ns="http://webservice.avm.pvads.com">
<ns:return xmlns:ax21="http://webservice.avm.pvads.com/xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ax21:WSReportBean">
<ax21:confidence />
<ax21:dateStamp>12/07/2007</ax21:dateStamp>
<ax21:html>adsasdasdsadasd</ax21:html>
<ax21:pdsReference />
<ax21:product>AVi (Exterior AND Interior Inspection) - 48hr RUSH</ax21:product>
<ax21:sourceData />
<ax21:successful>true</ax21:successful>
<ax21:value>168000.0</ax21:value>
</ns:return>
</ns:getReportTestResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
XML;
$document = new DOMDocument;
$document->loadXML($xml);
$ax21_elements = $document->getElementsByTagNameNS("http://webservice.avm.pvads.com/xsd", "*");
$array = array();
foreach ($ax21_elements as $element) {
$array[$element->localName] = trim($element->textContent);
}
var_dump($array);
That will output an array like:
array( {
["confidence"]=>
string(0) ""
["dateStamp"]=>
string(10) "12/07/2007"
["html"]=>
string(15) "adsasdasdsadasd"
["pdsReference"]=>
string(0) ""
["product"]=>
string(50) "AVi (Exterior AND Interior Inspection) - 48hr RUSH"
["sourceData"]=>
string(0) ""
["successful"]=>
string(4) "true"
["value"]=>
string( "168000.0"
}
That said, there's usually no real need to "convert" XML into an array at all. Instead, work with the DOM objects (here $document, $ax21_elements, and $element are DOM objects).
