Re: CDATA

[Peter R. <php...@pe...>]

On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 17:54, Gabriel Thielsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just can't figure out, how to get CDATA out of an element.
> My xml file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <Buyer>
>         <User>
>         <AboutMe>0</AboutMe>
>         <AllowPaymentEdit>1</AllowPaymentEdit>
>         <CIPBankAccountStored>0</CIPBankAccountStored>
>         <CheckoutEnabled>1</CheckoutEnabled>
>         <Email><![CDATA[gth...@we...]]></Email>
>         <RegDate>2003-12-30 15:31:20</RegDate>
>         <CountryCode>us</CountryCode>
>         <Zip>94115</Zip>
>         <UserId>mkgtest2</UserId>
>         </User>
> </Buyer>
>
> This works fine:
>
> $user = $xpath->getData('/Buyer[1]/User[1]/UserId[1]/');
> $user = $xpath->getData('/Buyer[1]/User[1]/UserId[1]/text()!!');
> return is "mkgtest2".
> For the element "Email" i have not found anything that returns
> "gth...@we...".
> I tried:
> $user = $xpath->match('//Email');
> It returns Array ( [0] => /Buyer[1]/User[1]/Email[1] )
> Ok, that's fine, but when i try to use that xpath in
> $user = $xpath->getData('/Buyer[1]/User[1]/Email[1]');
> or
> $user = $xpath->getData('/Buyer[1]/User[1]/Email[1]/text()!!');
> i get nothing, not even an error.

are you absolutely sure you get nothing? Try:

<?php
   include('XPath.class.php');
   $xml = new XPath();
   $xml->importFromFile('whatever.xml');
   print htmlspecialchars($xml->getData('/Buyer[1]/User[1]/Email[1]'));
?>

:-)