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luigi7up
luigi7up

Reputation: 5962

XML element holds non xml elements (not wrapped in cdata)

I am using simple xml for php and trying to parse the <content> element that is a part of following tree:

<entry>

...<title>

...<link>

...<summary>

...<content>

The problem is that <content> element cannot be read as a string because it has "non string" content that is not wrapped in CDATA:

<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="...">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>text... text...</strong> text <a     href="..." 
target="_self">LINK</a>. text</p>
</content>

I use the following code:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($feed_uri);

and then:

foreach($xml->entry as $entry){
$item = new RSSItem();
$item->title = (string) $entry->title;
$item->content = (string)$entry->content;
$item->date = (string) $entry->published;

My content member var is empty. The others are as expected If I change $item->content = (string)$entry->content; to $item->content = $entry->content; then I get another object nested in $item->content variable

Any ide how to force parser not to interpret elements found in content element (div, p etc.) as nested elements?

Thanks in advance, L

Upvotes: 2

Views: 170

Answers (1)

cweiske
cweiske

Reputation: 31078

Try $entry->content->asXML().

See http://php.net/simplexmlelement.asxml

Upvotes: 2

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