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Parsing XML using XMLReader in PHP

I am having great difficulties finding any resources on how to parse a pretty simple XML script. I have tried both simpleXML and the XMLReader tools and just cannot seem to pull the data out of the Arrays correctly.

Here is the XML code:

<stations>
<institution>
<name>Franklin</name>
<station_name>ADAC_SCU</station_name>
<station_name>AXIS467</station_name>
<station_name>Discovery80842</station_name>
<station_name>FRK_US_1</station_name>
</institution>
<institution>
<name>Arapahoe</name>
<station_name>ARAPUS</station_name>
</institution>
<institution>
<name>East</name>
<station_name>EASTASPN</station_name>
</institution>
</stations>

Any assistance on how to pull this data out into a php web page and then parse it out?

Thanks
JRLITM

Roonaan

$xmlFile = 'myxml.xml';

$xmlObj = simplexml_load_file($xmlFile);

$firstInstitutionName = (String) $xmlObj->insitution[0]->name;

echo $firstInstitutionName;

jrlitm

ASKER

Thanks Roonaan.

Using this example I see the data in $xmlObj however a null is passed into $firstInstitutionName and shows empty

Do you have an example of how to pull these out using a foreach so that I have an array like the following.

institution = "Franklin"
station[0] = "ADAC_SCU"
station[1] = "AXIS467"
station[2] = "Discovery80842"
station[3] = "FRK_US_1"

Thanks

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