Question

I want to delete all the empty nodes in my XML document using SimpleXML

Here is my code :

$xs = file_get_contents('liens.xml')or die("Fichier XML non chargé");
$doc_xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xs);
foreach($doc_xml->xpath('//*[not(text())]') as $torm)
    unset($torm);   
$doc_xml->asXML("liens.xml");

I saw with a print_r() that XPath is grabbing something, but nothing is removed from my XML file.

Answer 1

I know this post is a bit old but in your foreach, $torm is replaced in every iteration. This means your unset($torm) is doing nothing to the original $doc_xml object.

Instead you will need to remove the element itself:

foreach($doc_xml->xpath('//*[not(text())]') as $torm)
    unset($torm[0]);
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by using a simplxmlelement-self-reference.