The last comment on http://php.net/manual/en/function.si...oad-string.php
is what you need:

simplexml_load_string($xmlstring, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

Brady


On May 9, 2008, at 1250PM, Chris W wrote:

> I have an xml file with a cdata element like the one below. How
> would I use the php xml functions to extract that cdata and save it
> as a pdf file?
>
> <attach id="2" display-name="207069.pdf" file-name="207069.pdf" obj-
> type="1" system="0">
> <![CDATA[eJysumVQW1/0NtoWK95CcXe3EFxK8QDBCQ5 ...... ]]>
> </attach>
>
>
>
> The code I have is this...
>
> $in = fopen("test.xml", 'r');
> $XMLStr = '';
> while (!feof($in)) {
> $LineNumber++;
> $XMLStr .= fgets($in);
> }
> $XML = simplexml_load_string($XMLStr);
> foreach($XML->props->attachments->attach as $Attachment){
> print_r($Attachment);
> }
> The output looks like this...
>
> SimpleXMLElement Object
> (
> [@attributes] => Array
> (
> [id] => 2
> [display-name] => 207069.pdf
> [file-name] => 207069.pdf
> [obj-type] => 1
> [system] => 0
> )
>
> )
>
>
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