| Re: php xml DOM/xpath how to reference child nodes by name within foreach loop? [message #171669 is a reply to message #171605] |
Sat, 15 January 2011 00:37  |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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inetquestion wrote:
> I am having trouble extracting information from this xml document in
> php. The methods I’ve seen for printing the elements under each
> <server> do it blindly, looking only to see if it’s a child of
> <server>. What I would like to do is reference each element by name,
You meant to say "_type_ name". Your elements do not have names.
> but am not sure how…
> Any suggestions?
>
> <?php
> $xmlDOM = new DOMDocument();
> $xmlDOM->load("servers.xml");
> $SERVERS = $xmlDOM->getElementsByTagName("server");
> foreach ($SERVERS AS $svr)
> {
> ##### Print elements of <server> HERE #####
> ##### #####
> ##### How do you reference a specific node name at this #####
> ##### point which is a child to the current node? #####
> print $svr->nodeName;
The `nodeName' of a `server' element is 'server', of course.
> print $svr->getAttribute('offset');
> print $svr->getAttribute('ntpd');
`offset' and `ntpd' are _not_ attributes of the `server' element; if they
where, it would look as follows:
<server … offset="0" ntpd="running">
…
</server>
and not
> <server>
> <hostname>hostname01</hostname>
> <offset>0</offset>
> <ntpd>running</ntpd>
> </server>
You are looking for child/descendant elements and their *text content*,
which can be easily retrieved (assuming a `server' element only has ever one
descendant of that type):
print $srv->getElementsByTagName('offset')->item(0)->textContent;
print $srv->getElementsByTagName('ntpd')->item(0)->textContent;
Or if you want to use XPath:
$xpath = new DOMXPath($xmlDOM);
// …
$result = $xpath->evaluate('.//offset', $server);
print $result->item(0)->textContent;
(Those two approaches are equivalent, but XPath has a more efficient way if
you only want to consider child elements: './offset'.)
This really has little to do with PHP:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/>
PointedEars
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