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The SimpleXMLElement class

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Represents an element in an XML document.

Intro

Represents an element in an XML document.

Class synopsis

class SimpleXMLElement implements Stringable implements Countable implements RecursiveIterator { }

Changelog

VersionDescription
8.4.0Get methods (such as SimpleXMLElement::asXML or SimpleXMLElement::getName) and casting a SimpleXMLElement to a String no longer implicitly rewind the iterator. The iterator must now be rewound explicitly, using SimpleXMLElement::rewind, where needed.
8.0.0SimpleXMLElement implements Stringable, Countable, and RecursiveIterator now.

Simplexmlelement

In this section

SimpleXMLElement::__construct

Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object

SimpleXMLElement::__toString

Returns the string content

SimpleXMLElement::addAttribute

Adds an attribute to the SimpleXML element

SimpleXMLElement::addChild

Adds a child element to the XML node

SimpleXMLElement::asXML

Return a well-formed XML string based on SimpleXML element

SimpleXMLElement::attributes

Identifies an element's attributes

SimpleXMLElement::children

Finds children of given node

SimpleXMLElement::count

Counts the children of an element

SimpleXMLElement::current

Returns the current element

SimpleXMLElement::getChildren

Returns the sub-elements of the current element

SimpleXMLElement::getDocNamespaces

Returns namespaces declared in document

SimpleXMLElement::getName

Gets the name of the XML element

SimpleXMLElement::getNamespaces

Returns namespaces used in document

SimpleXMLElement::hasChildren

Checks whether the current element has sub elements

SimpleXMLElement::key

Return current key

SimpleXMLElement::next

Move to next element

SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace

Creates a prefix/ns context for the next XPath query

SimpleXMLElement::rewind

Rewind to the first element

SimpleXMLElement::saveXML

Alias SimpleXMLElement::asXML

SimpleXMLElement::valid

Check whether the current element is valid

SimpleXMLElement::xpath

Runs XPath query on XML data

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