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<?php $s = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>'. '<request><body test2="321" test3="987">'. '<rows><my-row test4="564">'. '<types>'. '<custom>this is the example of the text</custom>'. '<Generic arch="simple">this is the example of the text</Generic>'. '<bold/><italic/><underlined/>'. '</types>'. '</my-row><my-row test5="565"/><test hidden="false" ready="true"/></rows>'. '</body></request>'; $xml = simplexml_load_string($s); foreach($xml->children() as $state) { $states[]= array('state' => (string)$state->name); } echo json_encode($states); /*function f($xml, $stack = null) { print_r(array( 'call', $stack )); $stack = count($stack) ? $stack : array(); foreach ($xml as $key => $value) { $stack[$key] = null; if (count($value->attributes())) $stack[$key]['attributes'] = (array)$value->attributes(); if (is_string($value)) $stack[$key]['content'] = (string)$value; /*print_r(array( 'key' => $key, 'hasChildren' => (bool)$xml->hasChildren(), 'attributes' => (array)$value->attributes(), 'stack' => $s, ));* print_r(array( 'call', $value, )); if (get_class($value) == 'SimpleXMLIterator' && $xml->hasChildren()) f($xml->getChildren(), $stack); } return $stack; } print_r(f(new SimpleXMLIterator($s)));*/