XML Parsing Issue

[shanejones]

I am trying to parse an XML file and there are some values that contain a : as you can see below.

 

$rss_xml = SimpleXML_Load_String($rss_data);

foreach ($rss_xml->channel->item as $item) {
	echo $item->title;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->link;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->description;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->g:price;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->g:image_link;
	echo "<hr />";
}

 

 

For some reason because of this : I get the error.

 

HP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blah/blah/blah/index.php

 

I have tried escaping it with a \ and also quoting the last element in the echo but it still will not have it.

 

Any suggestions.

 

Thanks

[RussellReal]

I am trying to parse an XML file and there are some values that contain a : as you can see below.

 

$rss_xml = SimpleXML_Load_String($rss_data);

foreach ($rss_xml->channel->item as $item) {
	echo $item->title;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->link;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->description;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->g:price;
	echo "<br />";
	echo  $item->g:image_link;
	echo "<hr />";
}

 

 

For some reason because of this : I get the error.

 

HP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/blah/blah/blah/index.php

 

I have tried escaping it with a \ and also quoting the last element in the echo but it still will not have it.

 

Any suggestions.

 

Thanks

 

you're probably trying to use the ::  operator instead of  ':', however, that will not work I don't believe, replace your ':' with '->' and see where that gets you

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Should work -

echo  $item->{'g:price'};

 

Ref:

Accessing elements within an XML document that contain characters not permitted under PHP's naming convention (e.g. the hyphen) can be accomplished by encapsulating the element name within braces and the apostrophe.

 

Example #3 Getting <line>

 

<?php
include 'example.php';

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);

echo $xml->movie->{'great-lines'}->line;

 

[shanejones]

Ok so adding the angled bracket and quote stops it from erroring. Now I have an issue with it not pulling the data from the XML file.

 

It now looks like this

 

$rss_xml = SimpleXML_Load_String($rss_data);

foreach ($rss_xml->channel->item as $item) {
	echo $item->title;
	echo "<br />\n";
	echo  $item->link;
	echo "<br />\n";
	echo  $item->description;
	echo "<br />\n";
	echo  $item->{'g:price'};
	echo "<br />\n";
	echo  $item->{'g:image_link'};
	echo "<hr />\n\n";
}

 

The XML file is here if you need to see the source. www.manuallinkbuilding.co.uk/index.php?rss=true&action=product_list&xmlformat=google

 

Thanks

 

[shanejones]

Solved my issue by using file_get_contents() to put the XML contents into a string and then user preg_replace to remove the g: values. then parsed it as normal.

 

Thanks for you help.