如何在使用php解析时从XML文件中获取链接和粗体表示法？

Question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<activities>
<activity category="Team">
<date><h4>Date: January 15, 2017</h4></date>
<work> 
    <li><b>MR X</b> working on X</li>
    <li><b>MR Y</b> working on Y</li>
    <li><b>MR Z</b> working on <a href="#">Z</a></li>
</work>
</activity>
</activities>

The above one is the XML file. Suppose the file name is activities.xml.

Now I want to parse the data in php. But I want to get the <b> and <a> tag intact. Means I want to get the line <b>MR Z</b> working on <a href="#">Z</a> directly when I parse using li tag. Is that possible? How to get the text with the links and show it?

My php code is something like below:

<?php
 $xmls=simplexml_load_file("activities.xml") or die("Error: Cannot create object");
foreach ($xmls as $xml) {
 echo $xml->date;
 echo $xml->work;
}
?>

Answer 1

You can use asXML function to ouput the way you want:

foreach ($xmls->activity as $xml) {
    echo $xml->date->asXml();
    echo $xml->work->asXml();
}

But the use of <![CDATA[ ... ]> is a better choice here, is the correct way to send this kind of data.