# SimpleXMLElement->attributes()

(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1)

SimpleXMLElement->attributes() — Identifies an element's attributes

### Description

SimpleXMLElement
SimpleXMLElement attributes ([ string `$ns` [, bool `$is_prefix` ]] )

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.

### Parameters

`ns`

  An optional namespace for the retrieved attributes

`is_prefix`

  Default to `FALSE`

### Return Values

### Examples

Example#1 Interpret an XML string

`<?php
$string = <<<XML
<a xmlns:b>
<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";
}
?>`

The above example will output:

    name="one"
    game="lonely"