PHP SOAP XML DOM - php

Question

I have a soap xml that contains a bunch of variables that I need to access. Here is the XML.
`<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<searchPersonsResponse xmlns="">
<searchPersonsReturn>
<attributes>
<attributes>
<name>ercreatedate</name>
<values>
<values>201104070130Z</values>
</values>
</attributes>
<attributes>
<name>status</name>
<values>
<values>Stuff1</values>
<values>Stuff2</values>
<values>Stuff3</values>
<values>Stuff4</values>
<values>Stuff5</values>
<values>Stuff6</values>
<values>Stuff7</values>
</values>
</attributes>
</attributes>
<itimDN>blah</itimDN>
<name>Smith, Bob</name>
<profileName>PER</profileName>
<select>false</select>
</searchPersonsReturn>
</searchPersonsResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
I'm trying to access the inner attribute node and pull out the Name and values into a multidimentional array like this ....
$array["status"][0]="stuff1";
$array["status"][1]="stuff2";
$array["status"][2]="stuff3";
$array["status"][3]="stuff4";
so far I have been able to access the nodes but not really get them the way I want. here is the code I have been playing around with .....
$dom_document = new DOMDocument();
$dom_document->loadXML($thexml);
$tag_els_names = $dom_document->getElementsByTagname('name');
$tag_els_values = $dom_document->getElementsByTagname('values');
$data = array();
$data2 = array();
foreach($tag_els_names as $node){
$data[] = array($node->nodeName => $node->nodeValue);
//grabs all the <name> node values
}
$i=0;$j=0;
foreach($tag_els_values as $node){
$j=0;
foreach($node->childNodes as $child) {
$data2[$i][$j] = $child->nodeValue;
//grabs all the value node values
$j++;
}
$i++;
$j=0;
}
Does anyone know an easy way to do this? I think that I have been looking at this for way to long.

Answer 1

How about something like:
$dom_document = new DOMDocument();
$dom_document->loadXML($thexml);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom_document);
$attr = $xpath->evaluate("//attribute/attributes");
$names = array();
$values = array();
$i = 0;
foreach($attr as $attr_node) {
$values[i] = array();
foreach($xpath->evaluate("name", $attr_node) as $name){
$names[] = $name->nodeValue;
}
$foreach($xpath->evaluate("value", $attr_node) as $value){
$values[i][] = $value->nodeValue;
}
i++;
}
This would, however, miss the <name> element that's outside of the <attributes> group. Did you mean to be including that?

Answer 2

I figured this out and thought it could help someone else
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$values=array();
if ($doc->loadXML($temp)) {
$attributes = $doc->getElementsByTagName('attributes');
foreach($attributes as $attribute) {
if($attribute->childNodes->length) {
$previous_nodeValue="";
foreach($attribute->childNodes as $i) {
if($i->nodeValue=="status"){
$previous_nodeValue=$i->nodeValue;
}
if($i->nodeName=="values" && $previous_nodeValue== "status"){
foreach($i->childNodes as $j){
$values[]=$j->nodeValue;
}
}
}
$previous_nodeValue="";
}
}
}