SimpleXML: Working with XML containing namespaces

Question

I am trying to get to the geo information off the google-picasa API. This is the original XML:

  
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Answer 1

echo $geo->pos[0];

Answer 2

You could work with XPath and registerXPathNamespace():

$xml->registerXPathNamespace("georss", "http://www.georss.org/georss");
$xml->registerXPathNamespace("gml", "http://www.opengis.net/gml");
$pos = $xml->xpath("/georss:where/gml:Point/gml:pos");

From the docs, emphasis mine:

registerXPathNamespace […] Creates a prefix/ns context for the next XPath query.

More ways to handle namespaces in SimpleXML can be found here, for example:
Stuart Herbert On PHP - Using SimpleXML To Parse RSS Feeds

Answer 3

This is how I did it without using xpath:

$georss = $photo->children('http://www.georss.org/georss');
$coords;
if($georss->count()>0) {
    $gml = $georss->children('http://www.opengis.net/gml');
    if($gml->count()>0) {
        if(isset($gml->Point->pos)) {
            $coords = $gml->Point->pos;
        }
    }
}