SimpleXMLElement (class)

The SimpleXMLElement class

Introduction

(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1, PHP 7)

Represents an element in an XML document.

Class synopsis

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 )

Table of Contents

• 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