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The SimpleXMLElement class

Introduction

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

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

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

public asXML ([ string $filename ] ) : mixed

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

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

public count ( ) : int

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

public getName ( ) : string

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

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

public __toString ( ) : string

public xpath ( string $path ) : array

}

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

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The SimpleXMLElement class

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Class synopsis

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