parse a SOAP XML response with Namespaces using PHP

Question

I have this ugly XML which has alot of namespaces on it, when I try to load it with simpleXML if i indicate the first namespace I\'d get an xml object ,but following tags with o

Answer 1

The rate data can be accessed like this:

Demo

$obj = simplexml_load_string($xml);

foreach($obj->children('http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/')->Body->children('urn:wsTest')->ServiceNameRQ->GetRatesRS->Rates->Rate as $rate)
{
    echo (string)$rate->RateName . "\n";
}

Outputs

Rack Rate
Normal Rate

If you want the Rate attributes, you can get them like this (within the loop):

echo $rate->attributes()->RateID;

You can read the R1 and R2 elements like this:

foreach($obj->children('http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/')->Body->children('urn:wsTest')->ServiceNameRQ->GetRatesRS->Rates->Rate as $rate)
{
    if(isset($rate->R1))
    {
       echo $rate->R1->attributes()->Name;
       echo $rate->R1->attributes()->MinRate;
    }
    if(isset($rate->R2))
    {
       echo $rate->R2->attributes()->Name;
       echo $rate->R2->attributes()->MinRate;
    }
}