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DasSaffe
DasSaffe

Reputation: 2198

simpleXMLElement find node

i have the following structure in an xml-element:

<assets>

    <icon id="1" type="grave" x="586" y="477">
        <text short="hello world" tooltip="" tteng=" "/>
    </icon>

</assets>

Now, using PHP, i try to find this specific node with xpath. I have to find this node by the short-value in the <text> snippet.

So, i need to get the parent of

<text="hello world" ... >

I was looking on php.net, but it didn't helped me that much.

What i tried is this:

$node = $xml->xpath('//text="hello world"');

but that didn't do the trick.

Regarding to the info from marc-b i added the following to my function:

public static function loadValuesFromNode($fileName, $name) {

    var_dump($name); // echoes "hello world"

    $xml = simplexml_load_file(self::$xmlDir . "/" . $fileName); // correct path, already tested
    $node = $xml->xpath('//text[@short="'.$name.'"]');

    var_dump($node); // empty -> (array(0) { }

}

If i change the xpath to:

'[@short="'.$name.'"'] (so without the text-thingy)

it returns "false";

Thanks in advance :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 438

Answers (1)

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360892

To test an attribute's contents, you need

//node[@attribute="value"]

so

//text[@short="hello world"]

Upvotes: 1

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