Question

I have a xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xml>
<settings>
<title>Calendar for September</title>
<subTitle>Calendar for September  Calendar for September</subTitle>
</settings>
<events date="06-09-2010">
<event id="2">
<title>This is My Second Event</title>
<description>This is My Second Event </description>
</event>
<event id="3"><title>This is My Third  Event </title><description>This is My Third  Event This is My Third  Event This is My Third  Event </description></event></events>
</xml>

I am parsing the xml file using

$xml_str = file_get_contents('xmlfile');
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_str);
if(!empty($xml))
{
 $nodes = $xml->xpath('//xml/events/event[@id="'.$id.'"]');
}

It will give only the title and description of event tag with specified id.How i can get the date

Answer 1

Try

//event[@id="2"]/parent::events/@date

Together with the original XPath:

//event[@id="2"]/parent::events/@date | //event[@id="2"]