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The DOMXPath class

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Allows to use XPath 1.0 queries on HTML or XML documents.

Intro

Allows to use XPath 1.0 queries on HTML or XML documents.

Class synopsis

class DOMXPath { }

Properties

document

The document that is linked to this object.

registerNodeNamespaces

When set to true, namespaces in the node are registered.

Changelog

VersionDescription
8.4.0It is no longer possible to clone a DOMXPath object. Doing so will result in an exception being thrown. Prior to PHP 8.4.0 this resulted in an unusable object.
8.0.0The registerNodeNamespaces property has been added.

Domxpath

In this section

DOMXPath::__construct

Creates a new DOMXPath object

DOMXPath::evaluate

Evaluates the given XPath expression and returns a typed result if possible

DOMXPath::query

Evaluates the given XPath expression

DOMXPath::quote

Quotes a string for use in an XPath expression

DOMXPath::registerNamespace

Registers the namespace with the DOMXPath object

DOMXPath::registerPhpFunctionNS

Register a PHP functions as namespaced XPath function

DOMXPath::registerPhpFunctions

Register PHP functions as XPath functions

Source: reference/dom/domxpath.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)