- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$xml = <<<'XML'
<root xmlns:ns1="foo" xmlns:ns2="bar"/>
XML;
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadXML($xml);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$namespaces = $xpath->query('//namespace::*');
var_dump($namespaces instanceof DOMNodeList);
foreach ($namespaces as $ns) {
var_dump($ns instanceof DOMNode);
}