DNL by value

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if there is a way to create a dnl (or an array?) with all
the entries in an XML with a certain value in a certain tag in PHP DOM?

Thanks a lot.

Luke

On Aug 26, 10:23*am, tinmach...@googlemail.com (Luke) wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to create a dnl (or an array?) with all
> the entries in an XML with a certain value in a certain tag in PHP DOM?

What do you mean by "entries" and "value"? It would help to use XML
terminology, e.g., do you want the content of all "strong" elements
with a "class" attribute?

You *can* query an XML doc with XPath: http://us.php.net/manual/en/domxpath..query.php
You'll get a DOMNodeList back, then, for each DOMNode you'd want to
normalize it, get the first child (hopefully a DOMText), and get that
object's "wholeText" property.

....which is why I'd probably just use a regular expression.

// not tested and not bulletproof, but will probably work
preg_match_all('@<strong\\s[^>]*?\\bclass=[\'"][^>]+>([\\s\\S]*?)</
strong>@', $xmlText, $m);

$m[1] will be an array of your strong contents..

Steve