SimpleXMLElement->attributes
    (no version information, might be only in CVS)
SimpleXMLElement->attributes -- 
     Identifies an element's attributes
    
Description
object SimpleXMLElement 
simplexml_element->attributes ( string data)
     This function provides the attributes and values defined within an xml tag.
    
Note: SimpleXML has made a rule of adding
iterative properties to most methods. They cannot be viewed using var_dump()
or anything else which can examine objects.
     
Example 1. Interpret an XML string 
<?php $string = <<<XML <a>  <foo name="one" game="lonely">1</foo> </a> XML;
  $xml = simplexml_load_string($string); foreach($xml->foo[0]->attributes() as $a => $b) {     echo $a,'="',$b,"\"\n"; } ?>
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