// i'm using this function to parse xml into an array// thing is that some xml i'm receiving contains a / in the attributes like here <orderheader customer_ordernumber="IO06/004621-1158314630" order_number="0010554587" sequencenumber="1" />// thereby the attributes after this / are not parsed...function xml2array ($xml){ $xmlary = array (); if ((strlen ($xml) < 256) && is_file ($xml)) $xml = file_get_contents ($xml); $ReElements = '/<(\w+)\s*([^\/>]*)\s*(?:\/>|>(.*?)<(\/\s*\1\s*)>)/s'; $ReAttributes = '/(\w+)=(?:"|\')([^"\']*)(:?"|\')/'; preg_match_all ($ReElements, $xml, $elements); foreach ($elements[1] as $ie => $xx) { $xmlary[$ie]["name"] = $elements[1][$ie]; if ( $attributes = trim($elements[2][$ie])) { preg_match_all ($ReAttributes, $attributes, $att); foreach ($att[1] as $ia => $xx) // all the attributes for current element are added here $xmlary[$ie]["attributes"][$att[1][$ia]] = $att[2][$ia]; } // if $attributes // get text if it's combined with sub elements $cdend = strpos($elements[3][$ie],"<"); if ($cdend > 0) { $xmlary[$ie]["text"] = substr($elements[3][$ie],0,$cdend -1); } // if cdend if (preg_match ($ReElements, $elements[3][$ie])){ $xmlary[$ie]["elements"] = xml2array ($elements[3][$ie]); } else if (isset($elements[3][$ie])){ $xmlary[$ie]["text"] = $elements[3][$ie]; } $xmlary[$ie]["closetag"] = $elements[4][$ie]; }//foreach ? return $xmlary;}