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    copied!<p>I'm reading a plist using <code>simplexml_load_file</code> the plist I have opens as checked using <code>var_dump</code> however I'm not sure of the syntax to actually access the items. All i need to get is 2 pieces of info.</p> <p>The var_dump from simplexml_load_file looks like the below. All i want is the text "SimpleCalculator"</p> <pre><code>object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (2) { ["@attributes"]=&gt; array(1) { ["version"]=&gt; string(3) "3.0" } ["dict"]=&gt; object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (2) { ["key"]=&gt; string(5) "items" ["array"]=&gt; object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (1) { ["dict"]=&gt; object(SimpleXMLElement)#4 (3) { ["key"]=&gt; array(2) { [0]=&gt; string(6) "assets" [1]=&gt; string(8) "metadata" } ["array"]=&gt; object(SimpleXMLElement)#5 (1) { ["dict"]=&gt; object(SimpleXMLElement)#7 (2) { ["key"]=&gt; array(2) { [0]=&gt; string(4) "kind" [1]=&gt; string(3) "url" } ["string"]=&gt; array(2) { [0]=&gt; string(16) "software-package" [1]=&gt; string(7) "__URL__" } } } ["dict"]=&gt; object(SimpleXMLElement)#6 (2) { ["key"]=&gt; array(5) { [0]=&gt; string(17) "bundle-identifier" [1]=&gt; string(14) "bundle-version" [2]=&gt; string(4) "kind" [3]=&gt; string(5) "title" [4]=&gt; string(8) "subtitle" } ["string"]=&gt; array(5) { [0]=&gt; string(16) "SimpleCalculator" [1]=&gt; string(3) "000" [2]=&gt; string(8) "software" [3]=&gt; string(33) "com.mywork.demo" [4]=&gt; string(3) "1.0" } } } } } } </code></pre> <p>And the XML Looks like:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt; &lt;plist version="3.0"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;items&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;assets&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;kind&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;software-package&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;url&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;__URL__&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;key&gt;metadata&lt;/key&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;bundle-identifier&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;SimpleCalculator&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;bundle-version&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;000&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;kind&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;software&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;title&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;com.mywork.demo&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;subtitle&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;1.0&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/plist&gt; </code></pre>
 

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