PHP: SimpleXMLElement::xpath

SimpleXMLElement::xpath

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

SimpleXMLElement::xpath — Runs XPath query on XML data

Description public SimpleXMLElement::xpath(string $expression): array|null|false

The xpath method searches the SimpleXML node for children matching the XPath expression.

Parameters

expression

An XPath path

Return Values

Returns an array of SimpleXMLElement objects on success; or null or false in case of an error.

Examples

Example #1 Xpath

The above example will output:

/a/b/c: text/a/b/c: stuffb/c: textb/c: stuff

Notice that the two results are equal.

See Also

SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace() - Creates a prefix/ns context for the next XPath query SimpleXMLElement::getDocNamespaces() - Returns namespaces declared in document SimpleXMLElement::getNamespaces() - Returns namespaces used in document Basic SimpleXML usage