Simplexmlelement attributes manual

SimpleXMLElement::children ». Submit a Pull Request Report a Bug. It is really simple to access attributes using array form. However, you must convert them to strings or ints if you plan on passing the values to functions.

It may not work if your XML string includes a declaration. Note that changing attributes from within a foreach loop, especially namespaced attributes, can be very tricky. Be aware when you trying to cast some attribute to boolean. Figuring out how to access the properties of a SimpleXmlElement object was a little tricky for me. In particular, it took a while to discover that I needed to cast my SimpleXmlElement properties to be of type "string" to print them or do comparisons on them.

I assume if you were doing a numeric comparison you'd want to cast to an int or something numeric instead. Therefore it is possible to add attributes edit attributes remove attributes add nodes edit nodes remove nodes This is the reason why SimpleXML provides only add-methods not deleting- or editing-methods.

We also need this methods because SimpleXML acts as a normal class and new member will not converted to a new node. Deleting a node seems not to be possible within a foreach-loop.

The reason is simple. To do that we need a valid key, but the Iterator only gives us a "understandable feedback" on which node we are working on: the tag name. Warning to anyone trying to parse XML with a key name that includes a hyphen ie. Bad XML: '. The root node element of your input XML string is not retrievable as a property. Also, you may not have two or more root elements -- that is apparently not well-formed XML.

It may not work if your XML string includes a declaration. Note that changing attributes from within a foreach loop, especially namespaced attributes, can be very tricky.

Be aware when you trying to cast some attribute to boolean. Figuring out how to access the properties of a SimpleXmlElement object was a little tricky for me.

In particular, it took a while to discover that I needed to cast my SimpleXmlElement properties to be of type "string" to print them or do comparisons on them. I assume if you were doing a numeric comparison you'd want to cast to an int or something numeric instead. Therefore it is possible to add attributes edit attributes remove attributes add nodes edit nodes remove nodes This is the reason why SimpleXML provides only add-methods not deleting- or editing-methods.