Question

I’m parsing XML results from an API call using PHP and xpath.

 $dom = new DOMDocument();  $dom->loadXML($response->getBody());   $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);  $xpath->registerNamespace('a', 'http://www.example.com');   $hrefs = $xpath->query('//a:Books/text()', $dom);   for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {       $arrBookTitle[$i] = $hrefs->item($i)->data;  }   $hrefs = $xpath->query('//a:Books', $dom);   for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {       $arrBookDewey[$i] = $hrefs->item($i)->getAttribute('DeweyDecimal');  } 

This works but is there a way I can access both the text and the attribute from one query? And if so how do you get to those items once query is executed?

Answer 1

After doing some looking around I came across this solution. This way I can get the element text and access any attributes of the node.

$hrefs = $xpath->query('//a:Books', $dom);  for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {     $arrBookTitle[$i] = $hrefs->item($i)->nodeValue;     $arrBookDewey[$i] = $hrefs->item($i)->getAttribute('DeweyDecimal'); }