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I know this is an old question, but I could never get SimpleXML to do anything. Given that this is the only thing that comes up in a Google search about using the European Patent OFfice API with PHP, I thought I'd document what worked for me... Here's how I solved it: <pre><code># build query url $patent_url = 'http://ops.epo.org/3.0/rest-services/published-data/search/full-cycle/?q='.urlencode($your_query); # grab the contents of $patent_url $patent_raw = file_get_contents($patent_url); # create an XML parser $resource = xml_parser_create(); # parse XML into array xml_parse_into_struct($resource, $patent_raw, $patent_array); # close the parser - you want to do this... xml_parser_free($resource); </code></pre> Now you have a standard PHP array (<code>$patent_array</code>) you can iterate through. Note that this is similar to my code, but not exactly the same - you may have to tweak it if you cut/paste... Of course, you still have to figure out what to do with the ridiculously complex designed-by-committee data structure, but at least it's in mugable form. Edit: While trying to get more complex results, it became clear that EPO data is not strict XML. SimpleXML & the above code both do nothing when trying to parse results. The solution was to use a DOM XML parser, which is fault tolerant. The code I used is described here: <a href="http://set.cooki.me/archives/225/php-dom-xml-to-array" rel="nofollow">http://set.cooki.me/archives/225/php-dom-xml-to-array</a>
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