note 49511 added to function.dom-domxpath-query

Simple example about DOMXPath::query( )... countries.xml ====================================== <?xml version="1.0"?> <countries> <country id="1"> <name>Italy</name> <continent>Europe</continent> </country> <country id="2"> <name>Australy</name> <continent>Oceania</continent> </country> <country id="3"> <name>France</name> <continent>Europe</continent> </country> <country id="4"> <name>Japan</name> <continent>Asia</continent> </country> </countries> ====================================== index.php ====================================== <?php $countries = DOMDocument::load('countries.xml') ; $xpath = new DOMXPath($countries) ; $list = $xpath->query('//country[continent="Europe"]') ; /* XPath query get european countries $list is a DOMNodeList object You can use foreach( ) with DOMNodeList objects */ echo "<p>Countries found : <strong>$list->length</strong></p>" ; echo '<ul>' ; foreach ( $list as $country ) { printf('<li>%s (%d)</li>', $country->getElementsByTagName('name')->item(0)->nodeValue, $country->getAttribute('id')) ; } echo '</ul>' ; ?> ====================================== Will output : ====================================== Countries found : 2 * Italy (1) * France (3) ====================================== ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domxpath-query.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+49511 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49511&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49511&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49511&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49511&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49511&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+49511&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php