Geting soap xsi:type from server response

Question 1

I 'm not quite sure if this answer fits your question exactly. The following code snippet gets the type attribute value by their given namespaces and not the type of the namespaced value itself.

Done with PHP 's own Document Object Model.

<?php
$str = <<<XML
    <content>
        <transactions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns2:type1">
            <id>24111</id>
            <something>00000000</something>
            <name>Blah</name>
        </transactions>
        <transactions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns2:type8">
            <id>24111</id>
            <somethingelse>011</somethingelse>
        </transactions>
    </content>
XML;

$doc = new DomDocument();
$doc->loadXML($str);

$nodeList = $doc->getElementsByTagName('transactions');
foreach ($nodeList as $element) {
    $value = $element->getAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance', 'type');
    echo $value . "\n";
}

This will output the two given types "ns2:type1" and "ns2:type8".

Question 2

I can parse your elements with simple_html_dom.

Here is the link for it.

An example is here :

<?php
include "simple_html_dom.php";
$html_nb = '
<transactions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns2:type1"><id>24111</id><something>00000000</something><name>Blah</name>
</transactions>
<transactions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns2:type8"><id>24111</id><somethingelse>011</somethingelse>
</transactions>';
function chtml($str){
    if(strpos("<html>", $str) !== false)
        return '<html><whole_code>'.$str.'</whole_code></html>';
    else
        return "<whole_code>".$str."</whole_code>";
}
function find_element_type($str){
    if(preg_match_all("/\<(.*?)\>/i", $str, $matches))
        return $matches[1][0];
    else
        return false;
}
function get_xsi_type($str){
    if(preg_match_all("/xsi\:type\=\"(.*?)\"/i", $str, $matches))
        return $matches[1][0];
    else
        return false;
}

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html_2 = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load(chtml($html_nb));
$max_type = 10;

$element = $html->find('whole_code');
$e = $element[0]->innertext;
$html_2->load(chtml($e));
$k = 0;
while($html_2->find("whole_code",false)->children($k) != "")
{
   $all = $html_2->find("whole_code",false)->children($k);
   echo get_xsi_type($all) . "<br>";
   echo find_element_type($all) . " : " .$all."<br>";
   $k++;
}
echo "<hr>";

The result :

ns2:type1
transactions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns2:type1" : 2411100000000Blah 
ns2:type8
transactions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns2:type8" : 24111011