SimpleXML is a SAX XML parser. It represents an XML document as a hierarchical set of objects and properties where each element is an object and each attribute is an object property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Access an XML element using SimpleXML<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Save this file as hotel.xml<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that we did not have to call the tag “hotels” since it is the root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accessing multiple XML elements using SimpleXML<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Save this file as hotels.xml<\/p>\n\n\n\n The foreach loop iterates over the XML elements. count() function allows users to count any type of element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accessing attributes of XML elements<\/strong> SimpleXML stores attributes as key value pairs in an associative array.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Altering XML element and attribute values<\/strong> This simple example shows how to change XML element and attribute values:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The asXML() function converts SimpleXML object tree to XML. Following is the output of this program<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that this program only printed an edited XML string to screen, it did not edit the XML file. 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Access an XML element using SimpleXML Save this file as hotel.xml Note that we did not have to call the tag “hotels” since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularsciences.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<hotels>\n <hotel stars=\"5\">\n <name>President Wilson<\/name>\n <city>Geneva<\/city>\n <country>Switzerland<\/country>\n <\/hotel>\n<\/hotels>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\/\/ load XML file\n$xml = simplexml_load_file('hotel.xml') or die (\"Unable to load XML\");\n\n\/\/ access xml element\necho 'Hotel: ' . $xml->hotel->name;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<hotels>\n <hotel stars=\"5\">\n <name>President Wilson<\/name>\n <city>Geneva<\/city>\n <country>Switzerland<\/country>\n <\/hotel>\n <hotel stars=\"5\">\n <name>Montreux Palace<\/name>\n <city>Montreux<\/city>\n <country>Switzerland<\/country>\n <\/hotel>\n <hotel stars=\"3\">\n <name>Express by Holiday Inn<\/name>\n <city>Geneva<\/city>\n <country>Switzerland<\/country>\n <\/hotel> \n<\/hotels>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\/\/ show how to access multiple elements with SimpleXML\n\n\/\/ load XML file\n$xml = simplexml_load_file('hotels.xml') or die (\"Unable to load XML\");\n\n\/\/ access XML elements\nforeach ($xml->hotel as $hotel) {\n \/\/ print data\n print '<br>Hotel: ' . $hotel->name;\n}\n\n\/\/ count elements\nprint '<br>Total: ' . count($xml->hotel);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\/\/ accessing attributes of xml elements\n\n\/\/ load XML file\n$xml = simplexml_load_file('hotels.xml') or die (\"Unable to load XML\");\n\n\/\/ access XML elements\nforeach ($xml->hotel as $hotel) {\n \/\/ print data\n print '<br>' . $hotel->name . ' is a ' . $hotel['stars'] . ' star hotel';\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\/\/ alter xml elements and attributes using SimpleXML\n\n\/\/ load XML file\n$xml = simplexml_load_file('hotels.xml') or die (\"Unable to load XML\");\n\n\/\/ change element value\n$xml->hotel[2]->name = 'Crown Plaza';\n\n\/\/ change attribute value \n$xml->hotel[2]{'stars'} = 4;\n\n\/\/ print new XML string\nheader('Content-Type: text\/html');\necho $xml->asXML();\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<hotels>\n <hotel stars=\"5\">\n <name>President Wilson<\/name>\n <city>Geneva<\/city>\n <country>Switzerland<\/country>\n <\/hotel>\n <hotel stars=\"5\">\n <name>Montreux Palace<\/name>\n <city>Montreux<\/city>\n <country>Switzerland<\/country>\n <\/hotel>\n <hotel stars=\"4\">\n <name>Crown Plaza<\/name>\n <city>Geneva<\/city>\n <country>Switzerland<\/country>\n <\/hotel> \n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n