note 86948 deleted from simplexmlelement.addAttribute by danbrown

Note Submitter: khishigbaatar at 2xcoding dot com ---- simpleXML have only read/write methods, so to remove attributes in nodes, there is a simple way even without DOM extension. Use unset(); Example: if "samlpe.xml" contains <?xml version="1.0"?> <books> <book author="unknown">The Secret History of the Mongols</book> <book author="Jack Weatherford">Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World</book> <book author="David Morgan">The Mongols (The Peoples of Europe)</book> <book author="Stephen Turnbull">Mongol Warrior 1200-1350</book> <book author="Marco Polo">The Travels of Marco Polo</book> <book author="J. J. Saunders">The History of Mongol Conquests</book> </books> <?php // load xml file $xml = simplexml_load_file("sample.xml"); // remove first book's attribute unset($xml->book[0][author]); // write xml file $xml->asXML("sample.xml"); ?> Now "sample.xml" is: <?xml version="1.0"?> <books> <book>The Secret History of the Mongols</book> <book author="Jack Weatherford">Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World</book> <book author="David Morgan">The Mongols (The Peoples of Europe)</book> <book author="Stephen Turnbull">Mongol Warrior 1200-1350</book> <book author="Marco Polo">The Travels of Marco Polo</book> <book author="J. J. Saunders">The History of Mongol Conquests</book> </books> That's it.