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PHP Xpath multiple nodes

I would like to extract both attributes BODY and TYPE from the following xml and output the TYPE as div class and body as text.

For example:

foreach (...) {
echo "<div class='$type_value'>$body_value</div>"
}

My XML:

<smses>
<sms body='something' type='1' address='1234'>
<sms body='something' type='2' address='12345'>
<sms body='something' type='2' address='1234'>
</smses>

My code (so far extracting only one attribute - body):

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('xml/sms.xml');

$path = new Domxpath($doc);

$num = $_POST["sel"];

$result = $path->query("//smses/sms[@address='$num']/@body");

foreach($result as $res)
{
echo "<div id='sms'>".$res->textContent.'</div><br/><br/>';
}
Solution

  • Remove /@body from the XPath so that you select the actual <sms> element, using that you can get the type attribute and its body text into the <div>:

    $result = $path->query("//smses/sms[@address='$num']");

foreach($result as $res)
{
    echo "<div id='sms' class='" . $res->getAttribute("type") . "'>". $res->getAttribute("body").'</div><br/><br/>';
}

    Demo