Question

I’m creating a SimpleXMLElement object from an XML file:

$pages = new SimpleXMLElement('content.xml', LIBXML_NOCDATA, true);

A simplified verison of content.xml looks like this: http://pastebin.com/mtvrPAK4

Is there some PHP function that will return the descendent of $pages bearing the attribute id=”whatis”?

Answer 1

Take a look at SimpleXML::xpath():

$pages->xpath('/pages/page[@id = "whatis"]');