DOM XML (PHP 4) Functions
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xpath_eval_expression

(PHP 4)

xpath_eval_expression Evaluates the XPath Location Path in the given string

Description

XPathObject XPathContext::xpath_eval_expression ( string $expression [, domnode $contextnode ] )
XPathObject xpath_eval_expression ( XPathContext $xpath_context , string $expression [, domnode $contextnode ] )

Example #1 xpath_eval_expression() Example

<?php

include("example.inc");

if (!
$dom domxml_open_mem($xmlstr)) {
    echo 
"Error while parsing the document\n";
    exit;
}

$xpath xpath_new_context($dom);
var_dump(xpath_eval_expression($xpath'/chapter/@language'));

?>

The above example will output:

object(XPathObject)(2) {
   ["type"]=>
   int(1)
   ["nodeset"]=>
   array(1) {
     [0]=>
     object(domattribute)(5) {
       ["type"]=>
       int(2)
       ["name"]=>
       string(8) "language"
       ["value"]=>
       string(2) "en"
       [0]=>
       int(7)
       [1]=>
       int(138004256)
     }
  }
}

See also xpath_eval().


DOM XML (PHP 4) Functions
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