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The SimpleXMLElement class

Introduction

Represents an element in an XML document.

SimpleXMLElement implements Traversable {

/* Methods */

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 ] )

public string getName ( void )

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

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

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::xpath - Runs XPath query on XML data