Handy wrapper for the PHP DOM, XPath and XSLTProcessor
Manual is under construction.
$xml = new \pgood\xml\xml('demo.xml'); //get string value (xpath) $title = $xml->evaluate('string(/catalog/book[@id="bk103"]/title)'); //get dom element (xpath) $element = $xml->query('//book[2]')->item(0); //get subelement value (xpath) $price = $element->evaluate('number(price)'); //or $price = $xml->evaluate('number(price)',$element); //get attribute $oldId = $element->id; //or $oldId = $element->getAttribute('id'); //remove attribute $element->id = null; //or $element->removeAttribute('id'); //set attribute $element->id = 'newId'; //or $element->setAttribute('id','newId'); //set text content $element->text('new text content'); //get text content $element->text(); //append new element $newElem = $element->append('new-element'); //move queryed element before $newElem->before($xml->query('//book[3]')->item(0)); //move queryed element after new one $newElem->after($xml->query('//book[1]')->item(0)); //get previous element $newElem->prev(); //get next element $newElem->next(); //get DOMElement object $newElem->e(); //get parent $newElem->parent(); //remove element $newElem->remove(); //save changes $xml->save(); //get PHP DOMDocument $dd = $xml->dd(); //get root element $documentElement = $xml->de(); /* * XSLT Transformation */ $tpl = new \pgood\xml\template('tpl.xsl'); echo $tpl->transform($xml); /* * XML from scratch */ $xml = new \pgood\xml\xml(); $xml->de('root-element-name'); //using the xml::create method for element creation $newElement1 = $xml->de()->append($xml->create( 'child-element-tag-name' ,array( 'attr-name-1' => 'value for first attribute' ,'attr-name-2' => 'value for second attribute' ) ,'element text content' )); //lazy element creation $newElement2 = $xml->de()->append('child-element-tag-name'); $newElement2->{'element-id'} = 'id value'; //catch up an existed DOMDocument $xml2 = new \pgood\xml\xml($newElement2); //new XML from inline code $xml = new \pgood\xml\xml('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><data>content</data>'); //parse HTML $xml->loadHTML('<html><head><tile>Hello World!</title></head><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>'); //save $xml->save('new-file-name.xml'); /* * XPath and namespace * Let's count media:content elements in Yahoo RSS feed */ $xml = new \pgood\xml\xml('https://www.yahoo.com/news/rss/'); $xml->registerNameSpace('media','http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'); $numElemets = $xml->evaluate('count(//media:content)');demo.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <catalog> <book id="bk101"> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title> <genre>Computer</genre> <price>44.95</price> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description> </book> <book id="bk102"> <author>Ralls, Kim</author> <title>Midnight Rain</title> <genre>Fantasy</genre> <price>5.95</price> <publish_date>2000-12-16</publish_date> <description>A former architect battles corporate zombies, an evil sorceress, and her own childhood to become queen of the world.</description> </book> <!-- ... --> </catalog>