How to convert XML attributes to text nodes

Question

I have a PHP script that pulls an XML file from a remote server, and converts it to JSON using simplexml_load_string and json_encode. However, the simplexml_load_string seems t

Answer 1

You could use SimpleXML itself to read the attributes.

Example:

UNAVAILABLE');

foreach($xml->attributes() as $k=>$v) {
    echo $k." -> ".(string)$v."\n";

}
?>

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Output:

dataItemId -> iid7
timestamp -> 2012-03-21T15:15:41-04:00
sequence -> 7
name -> Yfrt
subType -> ACTUAL
units -> MILLIMETER/SECOND