Question

Consider the following code :

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadXML($file);

$xmlPath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$arrNodes = $xmlPath->query('*/item');
foreach($arrNodes as $item){
//missing code
}

The $file is an xml and each item has a title and a description.
How can I display them (title and description)?

$file = "<item>
   <title>test_title</title>
   <desc>test</desc>
</item>";

Answer 1

If your item looks like this:

<item>
    <title>foo</title>
    <description>frob</description>    
</item>

You could use getElementsByTagName() and nodeValue:

foreach($arrNodes as $item){
    print $item->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue;
}

---

Are title and description attributes? E. g. does an item look like this:

<item title="foo" description="frob" />

If so, you could just use getAttribute():

...
foreach($arrNodes as $item){
    print $item->getAttribute('title');
}