XPath can be used to filter your results according to any values : xpath « XML « PHP






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XPath can be used to filter your results according to any values

 
<?
    $xml = simplexml_load_file('employees.xml');

    $employees = $xml->xpath('/employees/employee[name="Laura Pollard"]');
    foreach($employees as $employee) {
            echo "Found {$employee->name}<br />";
    }
    $employees = $xml->xpath('/employees/employee[age<54]');

    foreach($employees as $employee) {
            echo "Found {$employee->name}<br />";
    }
    $employees = $xml->xpath('//employee[age>=48]');

    foreach($employees as $employee) {
            echo "Found {$employee->name}<br />";
    }
?>








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