The SimpleXMLElement class

Introduction

Represents an element in XML document.

SimpleXMLElement

SimpleXMLElement {

/* Methods */

void addAttribute ( string $name , string $value [, string $namespace ] )

SimpleXMLElement addChild ( string $name [, string $value [, string $namespace ]] )

mixed asXML ([ string $filename ] )

SimpleXMLElement attributes ([ string $ns [, bool $is_prefix ]] )

SimpleXMLElement children ([ string $ns [, bool $is_prefix = false ]] )

integer count ( void )

array getDocNamespaces ([ bool $recursive ] )

string getName ( void )

array getNamespaces ([ bool $recursive ] )

bool registerXPathNamespace ( string $prefix , string $ns )

array xpath ( string $path )

}

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::__construct — Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object
SimpleXMLElement::count — Counts the children of an 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::registerXPathNamespace — Creates a prefix/ns context for the next XPath query
SimpleXMLElement::xpath — Runs XPath query on XML data