[SOLVED] Simple XML parsing problems (coming back blank)

[Ninjakreborn]

My xml file (example) is like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ItemSearchResponse xmlns="http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2005-10-05"><OperationRequest><HTTPHeaders><Header Name="UserAgent"></Header></HTTPHeaders><RequestId>1QPP350WQXB5R08VSM7B</RequestId><Arguments><Argument Name="SearchIndex" Value="DVD"></Argument><Argument Name="Service" Value="AWSECommerceService"></Argument><Argument Name="Operation" Value="ItemSearch"></Argument><Argument Name="Actor" Value="Brad Pitt"></Argument><Argument Name="AWSAccessKeyId" Value="06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2"></Argument></Arguments><RequestProcessingTime>0.174333810806274</RequestProcessingTime></OperationRequest><Items><Request><IsValid>True</IsValid><ItemSearchRequest><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><SearchIndex>DVD</SearchIndex></ItemSearchRequest></Request><TotalResults>179</TotalResults><TotalPages>18</TotalPages><Item><ASIN>B000TGGJKU</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000TGGJKU%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B000TGGJKU%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Eric Bana</Actor><Actor>Orlando Bloom</Actor><Director>Wolfgang Petersen</Director><Manufacturer>Warner Home Video</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Troy (Director's Cut) [blu-ray]</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B000TGJ8IU</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000TGJ8IU%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B000TGJ8IU%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Eric Bana</Actor><Actor>Orlando Bloom</Actor><Manufacturer>Warner Home Video</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Troy - Director's Cut (Ultimate Collector's Edition)</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B00003W8NM</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B00003W8NM%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B00003W8NM%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Edward Norton</Actor><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Meat Loaf</Actor><Actor>Helena Bonham Carter</Actor><Actor>Zach Grenier</Actor><Director>David Fincher</Director><Manufacturer>20th Century Fox</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B000062XHI</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000062XHI%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B000062XHI%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Don Cheadle</Actor><Actor>George Clooney</Actor><Actor>Holly Marie Combs</Actor><Actor>Matt Damon</Actor><Actor>Michael de Lano</Actor><Creator Role="Cinematographer">Peter Andrews</Creator><Creator Role="Composer">David Holmes</Creator><Manufacturer>Warner Home Video</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Ocean's Eleven (Widescreen Edition)</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B000TGGJKK</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000TGGJKK%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B000TGGJKK%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Eric Bana</Actor><Actor>Orlando Bloom</Actor><Director>Wolfgang Petersen</Director><Manufacturer>Warner Home Video</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Troy - Director's Cut [HD DVD]</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B000093FLA</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000093FLA%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B000093FLA%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Ade</Actor><Actor>William Beck (II)</Actor><Actor>Andy Beckwith</Actor><Actor>Ewen Bremner</Actor><Actor>Jason Buckham</Actor><Creator Role="Primary Contributor">Statham, Jason</Creator><Manufacturer>Sony Pictures</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Snatch (Widescreen Edition)</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B0007P0XBO</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B0007P0XBO%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B0007P0XBO%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Catherine Zeta-Jones</Actor><Actor>George Clooney</Actor><Actor>Ed Kross</Actor><Actor>Julia Roberts</Actor><Director>Steven Soderbergh</Director><Manufacturer>Warner Home Video</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Ocean's Twelve</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B00004WG2F</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B00004WG2F%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B00004WG2F%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Anthony Hopkins</Actor><Actor>Aidan Quinn</Actor><Actor>Julia Ormond</Actor><Actor>Henry Thomas</Actor><Director>Edward Zwick</Director><Manufacturer>Sony Pictures</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Legends of the Fall (Special Edition)</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B000MCH5P4</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000MCH5P4%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B000MCH5P4%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Cate Blanchett</Actor><Actor>Mohamed Akhzam</Actor><Actor>Peter Wight</Actor><Actor>Harriet Walter</Actor><Director>Alejandro González Iñárritu</Director><Manufacturer>Paramount</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Babel</Title></ItemAttributes></Item><Item><ASIN>B00004RFFS</ASIN><DetailPageURL>http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B00004RFFS%26tag=ws%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/o/ASIN/B00004RFFS%253FSubscriptionId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2</DetailPageURL><ItemAttributes><Actor>Tom Cruise</Actor><Actor>Brad Pitt</Actor><Actor>Kirsten Dunst</Actor><Actor>Stephen Rea</Actor><Actor>Antonio Banderas</Actor><Director>Neil Jordan</Director><Manufacturer>Warner Home Video</Manufacturer><ProductGroup>DVD</ProductGroup><Title>Interview with the Vampire</Title></ItemAttributes></Item></Items></ItemSearchResponse>

PHP Parsing Page

<?php
// send request
$request = 'http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&' .
'AWSAccessKeyId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=DVD&Actor=Brad%20Pitt';
// get data from request
$response = file_get_contents($request);
// create temporary xml file based off data retrieved
$fp = fopen("temp.xml", "w");
fwrite($fp, $response);
fclose($fp);
// parse/display the xml
$file = 'temp.xml';

if (file_exists($file)) {
    $xml = simplexml_load_file('temp.xml');
    echo $xml->getName() . "<br />";
    foreach($xml->children() as $child) {
        echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br />";
    }
}

?>

It returns the names of the elements as it should, but not the "data" that's suppose to be within them.

Am I doing something wrong here.

The xml file changes obviously each time, but that is the basic format that is always returned.

[Ninjakreborn]

Ah, to do multi levels inside an xml file using "simple xml" you do something like this.

 

<?php
// send request
$request = 'http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&' .
'AWSAccessKeyId=06NSVBP9J0TT6AXYGER2&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=DVD&Actor=Brad%20Pitt';
// get data from request
$response = file_get_contents($request);
// create temporary xml file based off data retrieved
$fp = fopen("temp.xml", "w");
fwrite($fp, $response);
fclose($fp);
// parse/display the xml
$file = 'temp.xml';

if (file_exists($file)) {
    $xml = simplexml_load_file('temp.xml');
    echo $xml->getName() . "<br />";
    foreach($xml->children() as $child) {
        foreach($child->children() as $childsecond) {
            foreach($childsecond->children() as $childthird) {
                echo $childthird->getName() . ": " . $childthird . "<br />";
            }
        }
    }
}

?>