Getting XML child Elements PHP

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

I have an XML file I need to parse using PHP,  and for the most part, I can
parse it fine.

 

So if I have something like this, it works fine, no problems:

 

 

$mydata =  simplexml_load_file($FileToOpen);

 

<batch>

  <Report>

   <Page1>

     <violator_last_name>ZAMBRANO</violator_last_name>

     <violator_first_name>FRANK</violator_first_name>

  </Page1>

 </report>

</batch>

 

And I can get the data using something like this:

 

$LastName             = $mydata->batch->Report-> Page1->violator_last_name;

$FirstName             = $mydata->batch->Report->Page1->violator_first_name;

 

 

 

However, at the start of certain blocks of data, I have lines like this:

 

<Report caseID="122" number="000900006S">

 

The element is <Report>  but as you can see, it has child elements of caseID
and number.

 

I cannot figure out how to get the values of those child elements.

 

This does NOT work:

 

$caseID             = $mydata->batch->Report-> caseID;

 

I have Googled this and looked around but I can't find a solution that
works.

 

 

Shannon O'Donnell