Hm - that shouldn't be. I think the right solution is that media:title should not show up in the children of node, unless you are looking at the proper namespace, ie, you need to use children() to get the children in that namespace.
-Sterling On 8/18/05, Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't really understand how the current xml namespace handling in > simplexml is useful. > > test.xml: > > <rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss";> > <node> > <title>Title1</title> > <title>Title2</title> > <media:title>Media Title</media:title> > </node> > </rss> > > $xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml'); > $xml->node ends up containing a title array that looks like this: > > ["title"]=> > array(3) { > [0] => string(6) "Title1" > [1] => string(6) "Title2" > [2] => string(11) "Media Title" > } > > Of course, I can loop through > $node->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss') > and get > ["title "]=> > object(SimpleXMLElement)#8 (1) { > [0] => string(11) "Media Title" > } > > But how does this really help? I don't see how it is possible to > distinguish the namespaced title vs. the non-namespaced ones. My > suggestion here would be that for namespaced nodes the namespace alias > (or perhaps the actual namespace?) becomes the key in the nodes array. > As in: > > ["title"]=> > array(3) { > [0] => string(6) "Title1" > [1] => string(6) "Title2" > ['media'] => string(11) "Media Title" > } > > So people have a shot at distinguishing <media:title> from <title> > > Or, alternatively, have a separate arrays: > > ["title"]=> > array(2) { > [0] => string(6) "Title1" > [1] => string(6) "Title2" > } > ["media:title"]=>string(11) "Media Title" > > The latter is actually what I was (naiively) expecting. > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
