- var_dump: documentation ( source)
- simplexml_load_string: documentation ( source)
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_string(<<<DOC
<package xmlns="http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0" xmlns:tasks="http://pear.php.net/dtd/tasks-1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" packagerversion="1.4.7" version="2.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://pear.php.net/dtd/tasks-1.0 http://pear.php.net/dtd/tasks-1.0.xsd http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0 http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0.xsd">
<foo a="bar"/>
</package>
DOC
);
var_dump(
(string) $xml['version'],
(string) $xml['packagerversion']
);