SimpleXML: Selecting Elements Which Have A Certain Attribute Value
Try this XPath:
/object/data[@type="me"]Which reads as:
- Select (
/) children of the current element calledobject - Select (
/) their children calleddata - Filter (
[...]) that list to elements where ...- the attribute
type(the@means "attribute") - has the text value
me
- the attribute
So:
$myDataObjects = $simplexml->xpath('/object/data[@type="me"]');If object is not the root of your document, you might want to use //object/data[@type="me"] instead. The // means "find all descendents" rather than "find all children".
I just made a function to do this for me; it only grabs the first result though. Your mileage may vary.
function query_attribute($xmlNode, $attr_name, $attr_value) { foreach($xmlNode as $node) { if($node[$attr_name] == $attr_value) { return $node; } }}Usage:
echo query_attribute($MySimpleXmlNode->Customer, "type", "human")->Name;(For the XML below)
<Root><Customer type="human"><Name>Sam Jones</name></Customer></Root>