Accessing attribute from SimpleXML

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I am having a problem accessing the  attribute section of my SimpleXML object   When I var dump the entire object  I get the correct output  and when I var dump the rest of the object  the nested tags   I get the correct output  but when I follow the docs and var dump  xml- gt OFFICE- gt    attributes    I get an empty object  despite the fact that the first var dump clearly shows that there are attributes to output   Anyone know what I am doing wrong here how I can make this work

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xml    lt  lt  lt XML  lt root gt   lt elem attrib  value    gt   lt  root gt  XML    sxml   simplexml load string  xml    attrs    sxml- gt elem- gt attributes    echo  attrs  attrib      or just  sxml- gt elem  attrib     Use SimpleXMLElement  attributes   Truth is  the SimpleXMLElement get properties handler lies big time  There s no property named   attributes   so you can t do  sxml- gt elem- gt    attributes    attrib

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I used before so many times for getting  attributes like below and it was a little bit longer    att    xml- gt attributes    echo  att  field      It should be more easy and you can get attributes following format only at once   Standard Way - Array-Access Attributes  AAA    xml  field      Other alternatives are   Right  amp  Quick Format   xml- gt attributes  - gt   field      Wrong Formats   xml- gt attributes  - gt field   xml- gt    attributes  - gt field   xml- gt attributes  field     xml- gt attributes    field     xml- gt attributes- gt   field

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It helped me to convert the result of simplexml load file  file  into a JSON Structure and decode it back    xml   simplexml load file   token xml     json   json encode  xml    xml fixed   json decode  json     try1    xml- gt structure- gt    attributes    value    print r  try1     gt  gt  result  SimpleXMLElement Object       try2    xml fixed- gt structure- gt    attributes    value    print r  try2     gt  gt  result  stdClass Object        key    gt  value

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You can get the attributes of an XML element by calling the attributes   function on an XML node  You can then var dump the return value of the function   More info at php net http   php net simplexmlelement attributes  Example code from that page    xml   simplexml load string  string   foreach  xml- gt foo 0 - gt attributes   as  a   gt   b        echo  a       b     n

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Unfortunately I have a unique build  stuck with Gentoo for the moment  of PHP 5 5  and what I found was that    xml- gt tagName  attribute     was the only solution that worked   I tried all of Bora s methods above  including the  Right  amp  Quick  format  and they all failed   The fact that this is the easiest format is a plus  but didn t enjoy thinking I was insane trying all of the formats others were saying worked   Njoy for what its worth  did I mention unique build

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Try this   xml- gt attributes  - gt Token

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You can just do   echo  xml  token

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If you re looking for a list of these attributes though  XPath will be your friend  print r  xml- gt xpath   token

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