Question

I’m trying to access the multiple items across multiple Xpath queries, while using the first query as a base.

I tried:

$playerinfo = $xpath->query('//*[@class="PlayerHeader"]');
$playername = $xpath->query('/h3/a', $playerinfo);
echo $playername->item(0)->nodeValue;

Nothing is returned. If I do

$playerinfo = $xpath->query('//*[@class="PlayerHeader"]/h3/a');
echo $playerinfo->item(0)->nodeValue;

It works fine. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

$playerinfo is a list of matching nodes – when you use it as the context for a subsequent search, the context can only be a SINGLE node, not a node list:

$playername = $xpath->query('/h3/a', $playerinfo->item(0));