Blog : PHP xpath() Function

PHP xpath() Function

Definition and Usage

The xpath() function runs an XPath query on the XML document.

This function returns an array of SimpleXMLElements on success, and FALSE of failure.

Syntax

class SimpleXMLElement
{
string xpath(path)
}

Example

XML File

Tove
Jani
Reminder
Don't forget me this weekend!

PHP Code

$xml = simplexml_load_file("test.xml");

$result = $xml->xpath("from");

print_r($result);
?>

The output of the code above will be:

Array
(
[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
 (
 [0] => Jani
 )
)