The SimpleXMLElement class

(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1, PHP 7)

Introduction

Represents an element in an XML document.

Class synopsis

SimpleXMLElement implements Traversable {

/* Methods */

final public __construct ( string $data [, int $options = 0 [, bool $data_is_url = false [, string $ns = "" [, bool $is_prefix = false ]]]] )

public void addAttribute ( string $name [, string $value [, string $namespace ]] )

public SimpleXMLElement addChild ( string $name [, string $value [, string $namespace ]] )

public mixed asXML ([ string $filename ] )

public SimpleXMLElement attributes ([ string $ns = NULL [, bool $is_prefix = false ]] )

public SimpleXMLElement children ([ string $ns [, bool $is_prefix = false ]] )

public int count ( void )

public array getDocNamespaces ([ bool $recursive = false [, bool $from_root = true ]] )

public string getName ( void )

public array getNamespaces ([ bool $recursive = false ] )

public bool registerXPathNamespace ( string $prefix , string $ns )

public string __toString ( void )

public array xpath ( string $path )

}

SimpleXMLElement::addAttribute — Adds an attribute to the SimpleXML element
SimpleXMLElement::addChild — Adds a child element to the XML node
SimpleXMLElement::asXML — Return a well-formed XML string based on SimpleXML element
SimpleXMLElement::attributes — Identifies an element's attributes
SimpleXMLElement::children — Finds children of given node
SimpleXMLElement::__construct — Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object
SimpleXMLElement::count — Counts the children of an element
SimpleXMLElement::getDocNamespaces — Returns namespaces declared in document
SimpleXMLElement::getName — Gets the name of the XML element
SimpleXMLElement::getNamespaces — Returns namespaces used in document
SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace — Creates a prefix/ns context for the next XPath query
SimpleXMLElement::saveXML — Alias of SimpleXMLElement::asXML
SimpleXMLElement::__toString — Returns the string content
SimpleXMLElement::xpath — Runs XPath query on XML data

The SimpleXMLElement class

Introduction

Class synopsis

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