PHP XPath selecting last matching element [duplicate]

You have to mark for the processor that you want to treat //span[@class='myPrice'] as the current set and then apply the predicate position()=last() to that set.

(//span[@class='myPrice'])[last()]

e.g.

<?php$doc = getDoc();$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);foreach( $xpath->query("(//span[@class='myPrice'])[last()]") as $n ) {  echo $n->nodeValue, "\n";}function getDoc() {  $doc = new DOMDOcument;  $doc->loadxml( <<< eox<foo>  <span class="myPrice">1</span>  <span class="yourPrice">0</span>  <bar>    <span class="myPrice">4</span>    <span class="yourPrice">99</span>  </bar>  <bar>    <span class="myPrice">9</span>  </bar></foo>eox  );  return $doc;}

The expression you used means "select every span element provided that (a) it has @class='myprice', and (b) it is the last child of its parent. There are two errors:

(1) you need to apply the filter [position()=last()] after filtering by @class, rather than applying it to all span elements

(2) an expression of the form //span[last()] means /descendant-or-self::*/(child::span[last()]) which selects the last child span of every element. You need to use parentheses to change the precedence: (//span)[last()].

So the expression becomes (//span[@class='myPrice'])[last()] as given by VolkerK.