I wanted to get the list of schema elements from xml. For example
<xs:schema id="SPPOnlineXML" xmlns="" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xs:element name="SPPOnlineXML" msdata:IsDataSet="true" msdata:MainDataTable="lev_settings" msdata:UseCurrentLocale="true">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="lev_settings">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="LEVID" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="ATTHEADID" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="MINDATETYPE" type="xs:unsignedByte" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="MINMONTH" type="xs:unsignedByte" minOccurs="0" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
from the above schema i wanted to create an array of elements "LEVID","ATTHEAD","MINDATETYPE","MINMONTH"
To obtain all xs:element name-attribute values as an array I suggest you pick SimpleXML and make use of xpath. Once you've got the XML in a string (or a file) it is really straight forward if you know the xpath expressions:
# Obtain all element names incl. complexTypes:
//xs:element/@name
# Obtain all element names excl. complexTypes and those
# which contain anything incl. comments, text etc.:
//xs:element[not(node())]/@name
And per PHP code exmaple that looks like:
$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
echo "Obtain all element names incl. complexTypes:\n";
$elementNames = array_map('strval', $xml->xpath('//xs:element/@name'));
print_r($elementNames);
echo "\nObtain all element names excl. complexTypes and those
which contain anything incl. comments, text etc.:\n";
$elementNames = array_map('strval', $xml->xpath('//xs:element[not(node())]/@name'));
print_r($elementNames);