rg66 Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Hello, I am trying to parse an xml which comes back from Amazon and I am trying to know how many Browsenodes are shown within the XML. I am using the classs Tarzan to get the xml from Amazon and the returned data is automatically placed into simplexml. So currently I have this script $nodeinfo = $pas->browse_node_lookup($node); $xmlNode = $nodeinfo ->body->BrowseNodes->BrowseNode->xpath('/Ancestors'); $nodeCount = count ( $xmlNode ); if($nodeCount){ echo "NodeCount".$nodeCount."\n"; } The $nodeinfo holds the following xml structure and I am only showing the part for the Nodes [browseNodes] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [Request] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [isValid] => True [browseNodeLookupRequest] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 16197 ) ) [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 16197 [Name] => Epic [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 16190 [Name] => Fantasy [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 25 [Name] => Science Fiction & Fantasy [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 1000 [Name] => Subjects [isCategoryRoot] => 1 [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 283155 [Name] => Books with the Xpath I am trying to get the number how often "Ancestors" is shown. With this count I am able to goto my next programming script. With my script this is not working, it always gives me a 1. Is there a better way then how I have tried to solve it to count the Ancesters node? Is there also a way how to read the Nodes backway to front? Amazon gives the Structure of an item from the lowest group to the highest. I am kind of new with Simplexml and would really need some help. Hope some one can help me out. Best regards, Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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