Loop XML including all its children using xpath and SimpleXMLElement
- by Andersson
Im having a big xml tree with a simple structure. All I want to do is get a node by its attribute using xpath and loop the children.
param1 - correct language
param1 & param3 - correct node by its id and the parents id. (Need to use parent id when multiplie id appears. The id is not declared as id in DTD)
public function getSubmenuNodesRe($language, $id1,$id2) {
$result = $this->xml->xpath("//*[@language='$language']//*[@id='$id1']//menuitem[@id='$id2']/*");
return $result;
}
This works well, I get the node Im expecting. I having no problems looping the array returned by the xpath query. But when i try to loop childnodes all attributes are gone and many of the methods also. Except getName().
function printNodeName($node)
{
echo $node->getName(). " - \"" . $node['id']. "\"<br>";
if($node->children()->getName() == "menuitem")
{
$s = $node->children();
printNodeName($s);
}
}
$result = $xmlNode->getSubmenuNodesRe($_GET['language'], 'foo','bar');
if ($result) {
while(list( , $node) = each($result)) {
if ($node->getName() == "menuitem") {
printNodeName($node);
}
}
}
Why is that? only the name will be printed for the $s.
Really need help to solve this one, any assistance is deeply appreciated!
Thanks for your time.
