need some one to write a php atom parser

job done, and payment sent.

Thanks soulscratch, however someone else contacted me and finished the job first.

 

Think I finally got it, assuming the only namespace you use is xhtml:,

<?php
error_reporting( E_ALL );

$pFile = new SimpleXMLElement('sample.xml', null, true);  

foreach ($pFile->entry as $pChild)
{	
	echo "<p>\n";
	echo "Link is: " .$pChild->link->attributes()->href . "<br />\n";
	echo "Author is: " . $pChild->author->name . "<br />\n";
	
	if (!empty($pChild->content)) {
		
		if ($pChild->content->attributes()->type == "xhtml")
		{
		    $ns = 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml';
			$thing = $pChild->content->children( $ns )->div->asXML();
			$thing = str_replace( 'xhtml:', '', $thing );
			echo $thing;
		}
			
		
		echo '<br>after';
		// echo "<br>Conent is: " . $pChild->content->asXML() . "<br />\n";
	}
	
	elseif (!empty($pChild->summary)){
		echo "Summary is: " . $pChild->summary . "<br />\n";
	}
	
	else { 
	// no conent nor summary, don't need to print	
	}

	echo "</p>\n";
}

Code (markup):

xml I used:

<thing>
    <entry>
       <title>Test entry</title>
       <id>http://example.org/article</id>
       <link href="http://example.org/article" />
       <content type="xhtml" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	 <xhtml:div>This is a <xhtml:em>sample</xhtml:em> content. &amp; <xhtml:img src="http://www.example.com/smiley" alt=":-)" /></xhtml:div>
       </content>
       <author>
	    <name>John</name>
	</author>
     </entry>
 </thing>

Code (markup):

Source output:

<p>
Link is: http://example.org/article<br />
Author is: John<br />
<div>This is a <em>sample</em> content. &amp; <img src="http://www.example.com/smiley" alt=":-)"/></div><br>after</p>

Code (markup):