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simplexml_load_string only shows first line

I have a file https://tmpfiles.org/dl/951513/request_inspector_item_update.xml and when i parse it i get to see only the first line the xml is valid, so what can it be?

  $xml_data = $request->getContent();
  $xml=simplexml_load_string($xml_data);

this is the response:

SimpleXMLElement {#765
  +"@attributes": array:2 [
    "internalId" => "18818"
    "externalId" => "1.590072"
  ]
}
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Sinnbeck's avatar
Sinnbeck
3 years ago
Best Answer
Level 102

Pretty sure it still loads it. You just need to parse the tree using the methods availble on the returned object

For instance, a quite check on the namespaces

dd(simplexml_load_string($xml_data)->getNamespaces(true));

You could try specifying that namespace when loading

simplexml_load_string($xml_data, "SimpleXMLElement", 0, "ns1", true);
theProfit's avatar

Thanks @Sinnbeck is there also a way to get only the AssemblyItem from the first namescape this so i can verify i get the right XML.

Sinnbeck's avatar

@theProfit I honestly cant really remember how to work with xml in php. I havent done so in years. But I can highly recommend using a package that makes parsing it a bit easier. The simplexml_load_string() class is a bit tricky to work with

Sinnbeck's avatar

@theProfit I would probably go with the package that @mohamedtammam suggested. It is made by Crynobone who is an awesome developer (He made testbench for laravel)

theProfit's avatar

Thanks @Sinnbeck last question:


       Storage::disk('public')->put($name,$xml_data);
        $xml = XmlParser::load('/storage/app/public/'.$name);

i have this code but i think my storage path is not correct do you know something to get the right location now i must first store the request i am getting store it then read it again.

Sinnbeck's avatar

@theProfit personally I use the storage facade to get the path

$path = Storage::disk('public')->path($name);
theProfit's avatar

Thanks @Sinnbeck i am getting the following error

[2023-02-21 11:36:52] local.ERROR: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response::setContent(): Argument #1 ($content) must be of type ?string, Orchestra\Parser\Xml\Document given

this is the code:

        $xml_data = $request->getContent();
        $name = rand(0000, 9999) . '.xml';

        Storage::disk('public')->put($name, $xml_data);
        $path = Storage::disk('public')->path($name);
        $xml = XmlParser::load($path);

        return $xml;
Sinnbeck's avatar

@theProfit Then perhaps your problem is that you try to return the $xml variable as a response?

theProfit's avatar

@Sinnbeck Yes only when i now do a die dump i get this --> https://prnt.sc/s60f54otKr3y it is also showing only first 2 lines and the other solution is also not showing all the lines in the xml so i need a solution to read the xml.

Sinnbeck's avatar

@theProfit But why do you need to see more? Does it matter? I assume you want to parse the xml, not just view it?

LaryAI's avatar
LaryAI
AI
3 years ago
Level 58

It looks like you are only getting the first line of the XML file because you are not looping through the XML file. You can use a foreach loop to loop through the XML file and get all the data.

$xml_data = $request->getContent();
$xml=simplexml_load_string($xml_data);

foreach($xml as $item) {
    echo $item->internalId;
    echo $item->externalId;
}

This should loop through the XML file and print out the internalId and externalId for each item.

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