How to tell apart SimpleXML objects representing element and attribute?

Question

I need to print arbitrary SimpleXML objects in a specific manner, with special handling of attribute nodes.

The problem is that SimpleXML elements and attri

Answer 1

You need SimpleXMLElement::attributes:

function xml_out($el) {
    $name = $el->getName();
    echo '<'. $name;

    if (count($el->attributes())) {
        foreach ($el->attributes() as $a=>$v) {
            echo ' '. ((string)$a) . '="' . htmlspecialchars((string)$v) . '"';
        }
    }

    echo '>'. (string)$el;

    if (count($el->children())) {
        foreach($el->children() as $c) {
            xml_out($c);
        }
    }
    echo '';

}

May need a bit of tweaking.