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Get Root Node using DOMDocument in PHP 5

I am trying to get the root node of this XML using DOMDocument in PHP 5.

<diagnosis xmlns="http://checkout.google.com/schema/2" serial-number="8088c57b-bf00-4e83-b2d7-df9767da9140">
<input-xml>
<checkout-shopping-cart>
<shopping-cart>
</shopping-cart>
<checkout-flow-support>
</checkout-flow-support>
</checkout-shopping-cart>
</input-xml>
</diagnosis>

The root of the document should be "diagnosis" my code looks like this:
$dom_response = new DOMDocument();
$boolresult = $dom_response->loadXML($diagnose_response);
$root_element = $dom_response->getDocumentElement;
$root_tag = $root_element->tagname;

The loadXML function returns TRUE, but when I call the property getDocumentElement it returns NULL.

How would I go about getting the document root of the XML supplied?

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Roger Baklund

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Ray Paseur

No disrespect meant to the DOM, but this will do it with SimpleXML - var_dump() works on the object, which makes debugging easier.

<?php // RAY_DOM_root_node.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "<pre>\n"; // READABILITY
 
 
// DATA FROM THE OP
$xml = '<diagnosis xmlns="http://checkout.google.com/schema/2" serial-number="8088c57b-bf00-4e83-b2d7-df9767da9140">
  <input-xml>
    <checkout-shopping-cart>
      <shopping-cart>
      </shopping-cart>
      <checkout-flow-support>
      </checkout-flow-support>
    </checkout-shopping-cart>
  </input-xml>
</diagnosis>';
 
// MAKE AN OBJECT AND VISUALIZE IT
$obj = SimpleXML_Load_String($xml);
// var_dump($obj);
 
// PREPEND THE CORRECT XML HEADERS
$new_xml = '<?xml version="1.0" ?><wrapper>' . $xml . '</wrapper>';
 
// MAKE AN OBJECT AND VISUALIZE IT
$new_obj = SimpleXML_Load_String($new_xml);
// var_dump($new_obj);
 
// MAKE AN ITERATOR TO EXTRACT THE TOP KEY
foreach ($new_obj as $key => $thing)
{
   var_dump($key);
}

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