PHP XML parsing with values using encoding=base64

Question

How does one parse XML that contains values that are encoded. In my case I have a number of values that are encoded with base64:

<value encoding="base64">...</value>

Using SimpleXML it appears to ignore the encoding. So there must be a different way...

Answer 1

You retrieve the values and then decode them using PHP function:

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php

so the XML lib will get the content for you but you'll have to then do what you need with the content to make use of it.