Output loaded xml file with simplexml_load_file in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to output loaded xml file with simplexml_load_file.

Example


/*w  w  w . j  a va  2s  .  c  o m*/
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');
echo '<pre>';
print_r($xml);
echo '</pre>';
?>

The following code is for test.xml.


/*from   ww  w . j  av  a 2s  .  c  o m*/
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<inventory>
  <book isbn13='1'>
    <title>PHP</title>
  <author>Jack</author>
  <publisher>Publisher 1</publisher>
  <description>PHP Book</description>
  </book>
  <book isbn13='2'>
    <title>XML</title>
  <author>Jane</author>
  <publisher>Publisher 2</publisher>
  <description>XML Book</description>
  </book>
</inventory>

The code above generates the following result.





















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