Parse XML with Namespace using SimpleXML

Question

I have this as xml:

    
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Answer 1

Having worked a lot with simplexml, this is how I do it.

The magic trick if you already have an element and just want to get it's different namespaced children, say for a structure like this:

A type

Is to send TRUE as the second parameter to the children function:

  $title = (string) $entry->title;
  $gd = $entry->children('gd', TRUE);
  $attrs = $gd->when->attributes();
  $startTime = (string) $attrs->startTime;
  $gc = $entry->children('gc', TRUE);
  $notes = (string) $gc->notes();