help with xml parsing

[hungryfrank]

first of all let me say that i have no idea about coding. when i went to school we used punch cards

now here is the question

in the code that i have

 $responseDoc = new DomDocument();
        $responseDoc->loadXML($responseXml);

but it is very hard for me to use DomDocument. it would be hundreds of lines (i had a program thet stopped working and i want to just make changes to that)

i want to do a way that i can just have lines like

 

$BestOfferCount     = $Item->BestOfferDetails->BestOfferCount;

 

i hope i am making myself clear.

thanks for your help

[Barand]

Have you tried using simpleXML?

 

http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php

[hungryfrank]

no i changed it to 

$resp = new simplexml_load_file($responseXml);
        if ($resp->Ack == "Success") {
			echo 'success';}

but it doesn't

i might add that the xml file is nested

[hungryfrank]

this works

$responseDoc = new DomDocument();
        $responseDoc->loadXML($responseXml);
        
        //get any error nodes
        $errors = $responseDoc->getElementsByTagName('Ack');
         $code = $errors->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('Ack');
   //     if($code=='Success')
        {
            echo 'success';}

[requinix]

"$resp->Ack" would only have worked if was a child of the root element. Sounds like it wasn't, but I can't be sure because you didn't post the XML you're working with.