Question

How can I get each node’s attribute via xpath?

For instance,

book.xml,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<records timestamp="1264777862">
<record></record>
<record></record>
<record timestamp="1264777000"></record>
<record></record>
</records>

php,

<?php

$doc = new DOMDocument;

$doc->load('book.xml');

$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);

# get and output "<entry>" elements
$x = $doc -> getElementsByTagName('record');

# Count the total feed with xpath.
$total = $x->length;

# the query is relative to the records node
$query = 'string(/records/@timestamp)';

for ($i=0; $i<$total; $i++)
{
    $timestamp = $xpath->evaluate($query,$x->item($i));
    echo $timestamp ."<br/>";
}

?>

result (which it loops the first node only),

1264777862
1264777862
1264777862
1264777862

But I want to get,

1264777862
1264777000

I have followed the question and answer from here and modified from it.

Or maybe there are better methods?

EDIT:

xml,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<records>
    <record timestamp="1264777862">A</record>
    <record>B</record>
    <record timestamp="1264777000">C</record>
    <record>D</record>
</records>

with this,

for ($i=0; $i<$total; $i++)
{
    $value = $x->item($i)->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue;
    $timestamp = $xpath->evaluate($query,$x->item($i));
    echo $value.': '.$timestamp ."<br/>";
}

I get this result,

A: 1264777862
B: 1264777862
C: 1264777862
D: 1264777862

but this is the result I am after,

A: 1264777862
B: 
C: 1264777862
D: 

EDIT:

a test,

$nodes = $xpath->query('//records/record');

foreach($nodes as $node) {
    $value = $node->nodeValue;
    $timestamp = $node->getAttribute('timestamp');
    echo $value .': '."<br/>";
}

result,

A: 
B: 
C: 
D: 

Answer 1

One method:

$nodes = $xpath->query('//records[@timestamp]');
foreach($nodes as $node) {
    $timestamp = $node->getAttribute('timestamp');
}

Though, you’ve mixed record and records in your example, so I’m not sure which you’re using in reality.

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update: This code works for me:

<?php

$xml = <<<EOL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<records>
    <record timestamp="1264777862">A</record>
    <record>B</record>
    <record timestamp="1264777000">C</record>
    <record>D</record>
</records>
EOL;

$x = new DOMDocument();
$x->loadXML($xml);

$xp = new DOMXpath($x);

$nodes = $xp->query('//records/record');
foreach($nodes as $node) {
   echo $node->nodeValue, ': ', $node->getAttribute('timestamp'), "\n";
}

and outputs

A: 1264777862
B:
C: 1264777000
D: