I have been using Simple-XML in PHP 5.2.5 to try and parse an RSS feed
from feedburner. Most of what I want has worked just fine... except
the attempt to extract the content from the tag
"<feedburnerrigLink>".

As an example, this tag contains:
<feedburnerrigLink>http://someblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/
php.html</feedburnerrigLink>

Because this tag uses a special character I used:

$item_origlink = (string) $item->{'feedburnerrigLink'};
echo "<p>Original link was: ", $item_origlink , "</p>";

but I never seem to get the content of the tag.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

You can use the children or xpath methods to access elements with
prefixed names. Those nodes can't be accessed through the arrow (->)
operator. Examples:

// Get children that are qualified with the feedburner namespace

$feedElems = $elem->children('http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/
1.0')

// Get all origLink elements in the whole document

$links = $elem->xpath('//feedburnerrigLink');

// Get all origLink descendents of a node

$links = $elem->xpath('elem//feedburnerrigLink');

// Get origLink children

$links = $elem->xpath('elem/feedburnerrigLink');

Regards,

John Peters

On Mar 28, 4:31 pm, GorseFox <andy.mcmen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using Simple-XML in PHP 5.2.5 to try and parse an RSS feed
> from feedburner. Most of what I want has worked just fine... except
> the attempt to extract the content from the tag
> "<feedburnerrigLink>".
>
> As an example, this tag contains:
> <feedburnerrigLink>http://someblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/
> php.html</feedburnerrigLink>
>
> Because this tag uses a special character I used:
>
> $item_origlink = (string) $item->{'feedburnerrigLink'};
> echo "<p>Original link was: ", $item_origlink , "</p>";
>
> but I never seem to get the content of the tag.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance

On Mar 29, 1:43 am, petersprc <peters...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can use the children or xpath methods to access elements with
> prefixed names. Those nodes can't be accessed through the arrow (->)
> operator. Examples:
>
> // Get children that are qualified with the feedburner namespace
>
> $feedElems = $elem->children('http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/
> 1.0')
>
> // Get all origLink elements in the whole document
>
> $links = $elem->xpath('//feedburnerrigLink');
>
> // Get all origLink descendents of a node
>
> $links = $elem->xpath('elem//feedburnerrigLink');
>
> // Get origLink children
>
> $links = $elem->xpath('elem/feedburnerrigLink');
>
> Regards,
>
> John Peters
>
> On Mar 28, 4:31 pm, GorseFox <andy.mcmen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been using Simple-XML in PHP 5.2.5 to try and parse an RSS feed
> > from feedburner. Most of what I want has worked just fine... except
> > the attempt to extract the content from the tag
> > "<feedburnerrigLink>".
>
> > As an example, this tag contains:
> > <feedburnerrigLink>http://someblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/
> > php.html</feedburnerrigLink>
>
> > Because this tag uses a special character I used:
>
> > $item_origlink = (string) $item->{'feedburnerrigLink'};
> > echo "<p>Original link was: ", $item_origlink , "</p>";
>
> > but I never seem to get the content of the tag.
>
> > Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> > Thanks in advance

Thanks for the clues... I will be away for a few days, but will pick
up on this when I return.