DOMXPath::evaluate
One-liner concat type escape:
<?php
function xpathConcatEscape($string) {
return "concat(".str_replace(array("'',",",''"), "", "'".implode("',\"'\",'",explode("'",$string))."'") .")";
}
?>
I hate xpath :( This should not be needed.
DOMXPath::query
(PHP 5)
DOMXPath::query — 与えられた XPath 式を評価する
説明
public DOMNodeList DOMXPath::query
( string
$expression
[, DOMNode $contextnode
[, bool $registerNodeNS = true
]] )
与えられた XPath 式 expression
を評価します。
パラメータ
-
expression -
実行する XPath 式。
-
contextnode -
相対 XPath クエリを実行する場合に、オプションで基準ノードを指定することが可能です。 デフォルトでは、クエリは root 要素に対する相対パスとなります。
-
registerNodeNS -
オプションの
registerNodeNSで、 コンテキストノードの自動登録を無効にすることができます。
返り値
与えられた XPath 式 expression にマッチする
すべてのノードを含む DOMNodeList を返します。
ノードを返さない式の場合は、空の DOMNodeList
を返します。
expression が不正な形式な場合や
contextnode が無効な場合は、
DOMXPath::query() は FALSE を返します。
変更履歴
| バージョン | 説明 |
|---|---|
| 5.3.3 |
registerNodeNS パラメータが追加されました。
|
例
例1 すべての英語の書籍を取得する
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument;
// 空白に悩まされたくはありません
$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$doc->Load('book.xml');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
// root 要素から開始します
$query = '//book/chapter/para/informaltable/tgroup/tbody/row/entry[. = "en"]';
$entries = $xpath->query($query);
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
echo "Found {$entry->previousSibling->previousSibling->nodeValue}," .
" by {$entry->previousSibling->nodeValue}\n";
}
?>
上の例の出力は以下となります。
Found The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck Found The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
式を短くするため、contextnode
パラメータを使用することも可能です。
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$doc->load('book.xml');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$tbody = $doc->getElementsByTagName('tbody')->item(0);
// tbody ノードからの相対クエリです
$query = 'row/entry[. = "en"]';
$entries = $xpath->query($query, $tbody);
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
echo "Found {$entry->previousSibling->previousSibling->nodeValue}," .
" by {$entry->previousSibling->nodeValue}\n";
}
?>
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User Contributed Notes
DOMXPath::query
imoore76 at yahoo dot com
17-Nov-2011 10:17
info at syncgw dot com
22-Sep-2011 09:05
A warning to all PHP programmer using this function PHP 5.0.0.0: We needed an equivalent to upper-case() function (is not available in XPath 1.0).
XML-Document:
<Rec>
<SourceRef>./c:calendar2</SourceRef>
<SourceRef>./c:calendar</SourceRef>
</Rec>
using
query('//DataStore[translate(SourceRef,"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz","ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")="./C:CALENDAR"]/.')
returns ZERO matches.
If you change XML-Source to
<Rec>
<SourceRef>./c:calendar</SourceRef>
<SourceRef>./c:calendar2</SourceRef>
</Rec>
everything works fine
yuriscom at gmail dot com
07-Sep-2011 10:29
I hope it will be helpful for someone:
I spent some time to solve the problem when you query a string with quotes inside.
Suppose you have:
$parameter = "aaa \"bbb\"";
$domxpath->query("//path[text()=\"".$parameter."\""];
In versions > 5.3.0 there is registerPhpFunctions where you can put an addslashes. But in older version you cannot do it in simple way.
So the solution is to use a concat function. So when you have a substring with " inside, wrap it with '. And when you have a substring with ', then wrap with in ".
The code is:
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadXML("<name>'bla' \"bla\" bla</name>");
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$nodeList = $xpath->query("//name[text()=concat(\"'bla' \" ,'\"bla\"' ,\" bla\")]");
?>
Below is the function that receives a string and returns a concat pattern for the xpath query.
<?php
function getPattern_MQ($pattern) {
// initiating an array of substrings
$ar = array();
// points to the current position in a string
$offset = 0;
$strlen = strlen($pattern);
while (true) {
// find a position of quotes
$qPos = strpos($pattern, "\"", $offset);
if (!$qPos) {
// no more quotes
$leftOver = $offset - $strlen;
if ($leftOver < 0) {
$string = substr($pattern, $leftOver);
$ar[] = "\"" . $string . "\"";
}
break;
}
// add the whole substring before the quotes into the array
$ar[] = "\"" . substr($pattern, $offset, ($qPos - $offset)) . "\"";
// add the quotes wrapped with single quot
$ar[] = "'" . substr($pattern, $qPos, 1) . "'";
$offset = $qPos + 1;
}
// join the array to get: concat("aaa",'"',"bbb",'"');
$pattern = "concat(''," . join(",", $dynamicPatternsAr) . ")";
return $pattern;
}
?>
chris AT cmbuckley DOT co DOT uk
14-Apr-2011 07:31
To help with the problem where the default namespace is not registered with the DOMXPath object, you can use the following replacement to update your paths accordingly:
<?php
$xml = <<<EOS
<root xmlns="urn:test">
<foo>bar</foo>
</root>
EOS;
$expression = '//foo';
$prefix = 'fakeprefix';
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($xml);
$context = $doc->documentElement; // or whichever element you choose
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
// register namespace as below, and apply a regex to the expression
if (null !== $context->namespaceURI) {
$xpath->registerNamespace($prefix, $context->namespaceURI);
$expression = preg_replace('#(::|/\s*|\A)(?![/@].+?|[a-z\-]+::)#', '$1' . $prefix . ':$2', $expression);
var_dump($expression); // string(16) "//fakeprefix:foo"
}
$foo = $xpath->query($expression, $context)->item(0);
var_dump($doc->saveXML($foo)); // string(14) "<foo>bar</foo>"
?>
kkez at example dot com
03-Sep-2010 07:51
If the query() function seems to ignore your $contextnode, and instead returns all the tags in the document, try to use a relative path (use a . in front of the query):
<?php
$xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<test>
<tag1>
<uselesstag>
<tag2>test</tag2>
</uselesstag>
</tag1>
<tag2>test2</tag2>
</test>";
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadXML($xml);
$xpath = new DomXPath($dom);
$tag1 = $dom->getElementsByTagName("tag1")->item(0);
echo $xpath->query("//tag2")->length; //output 2 -> correct
echo $xpath->query("//tag2", $tag1)->length; //output 2 -> wrong, the query is not relative
echo $xpath->query(".//tag2", $tag1)->length; //output 1 -> correct (note the dot in front of //)
?>
See that i couldn't use $xpath->query("tag2", $tag1) as per the documentation, since "tag2" is not a direct child of "tag1".
I don't know why this note was deleted, i just tested it and it's correct.
It's not a bug, it's simply not written in the documentation.
Anonymous
27-Nov-2009 12:26
I found this useful for building page templates
<?php
$xsl = new DOMDocument;
$xsl->load('layout.xsl');
// Set the <xsl:include> href attribute, the inner stylesheet to include in this layout
$xpath = new DomXPath($xsl);
$res = $xpath->query('//xsl:include');
$res->item(0)->setAttribute('href','page.xsl');
$xsl->save('media/xsl/layout.xsl');
?>
Niklas
27-Aug-2008 02:36
For XPath escaping use the following method (of course it could be more efficient).
<?php
public function xpathescape($string)
{
$result = 'concat(';
for($i=0, $j=strlen($string); $i<$j; ++$i)
{
if($i > 0)
$result .= ",";
if($string[$i] == '\'')
$result .= "\"".$string[$i]."\"";
else
$result .= '\''.$string[$i].'\'';
}
$result .= ')';
return $result;
}
?>
Use it this way:
<php
$xpath->query('//example[sub='.xpathescape($acomplexstring).']');
?>
adam dot prall at thinkingman dot com
19-Jul-2008 09:01
If you're wondering, like I was, why your XPath queries are not returning any of the new DOMElements you create in your (X)HTML documents, and only the ones originally loaded in with (for example) loadXML(), this is why; if you're doing things right, you have registered the nameSpace 'html' after creating your DOMXPath object thus:
<?php
class XPathQueryLength {
private $nameSpace = '';
function __construct(DOMDocument $doc) {
$this->xpath = new DOMXPath($this->doc);
$this->xpath->registerNamespace(
'html','http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' );
}
function queryLength($query) {
return $this->xpath->query($query)->length;
}
}
?>
...but don't forget that when adding new elements to the above DOMDocument $doc, to use createElementNS() instead of createElement(), otherwise you'll have this problem:
<?php
//$doc is a previously loaded XHTML document containing a normal html, head and body structure
//$body is the first selected tag using $doc->getElementsByTagName('body');
$pTag = $doc->createElement('p','This is a new paragraph!');
$body->appendChild($pTag);
$xPath = new XPathQueryLength($doc);
print $xPath->queryLength('//html:p');
output: 0
print $xPath->queryLength('//p');
output: 1
?>
So do this instead:
<?php
//$doc is a previously loaded XHTML document containing a normal html, head and body structure
//$body is the first selected tag using $doc->getElementsByTagName('body');
$pTag = $doc->createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml','p','This is a new paragraph!');
$body->appendChild($pTag);
$xPath = new XPathQueryLength($doc);
print $xPath->queryLength('//html:p');
output: 2
print $xPath->queryLength('//p');
output: 0
?>
The resulting XHTML file from both example scripts looks much like this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>This is a hardcoded paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a new paragraph!</p>
</body>
</html>
...so you would think that a paragraph is a paragraph is a paragraph, since you never see the prefix, as in "<html:p>This is a new paragraph!</html:p>".
This may seem glaringly obvious, but I was writing a class that converts CSS queries into XPath queries, and the fact that a namespace had been registered was rather buried in the code.
We love the DOM, the DOM is good to us.
Nibinaear
03-Mar-2008 06:15
I've searched the entire web looking for a way to update / modify/ change/ alter the elements of an xml file and found NOTHING!
So here it is, the defninitive way to "Change XML elements with PHP" rather than adding / appending new ones. This uses XPATH:
<?php
// Create a DOMDocument instance
$xml = new DOMDocument;
// Ignore whitespace between nodes (default: true)
$xml->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$file='about.xml';
// Load the XML data source
$xml->Load($file);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($xml);
$query='/regions/branch';
$entries = $xpath->query($query);
foreach ($entries as $entry)
{
$entry->firstChild->nodeValue="like this!";
echo $entry->firstChild->nodeValue;
}
$xml->save($file);
?>
ondrej dot fischer at 4internet dot cz
25-Oct-2007 06:46
Unfortunately PHP's DOM extension doesn't support use of:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" ... ?>
processing instruction.
Here is an example, how to implement it using XPath query and extending DOMDocument by a method output().
<?php
// This simple function adds missing direct usage of anonymous instances
// in PHP5's reference model
function a($var) {
return $var;
}
// Extended DOMDocument class
class MyDOMDocument extends DOMDocument
{
public function output()
{
$stylesheets = array();
$PIs = a(new DOMXPath($this))
->query('/processing-instruction("xml-stylesheet")');
foreach($PIs as $PI)
{
// This might be implemented cleaner by regular parsing
// of DOMProcessingInstruction::data property
if(ereg('type *= *"text/xsl" +href *= *"([^"]+)"', $PI->data, $mem))
{
// Here should be verified, that XSL file exists.
a($stylesheets[] = new DOMDocument())->load($mem[1]);
}
}
if($stylesheets)
{
$processor = new XSLTProcessor();
foreach($stylesheets as $stylesheet)
$processor->importStylesheet($stylesheet);
return $processor->transformToDoc($this);
}
// If no stylesheet instructions present, return self directly
else return $this;
}
}
?>
Usage:
<?php
$document = new MyDOMDocument();
$document->load('my.xml');
echo $document->output()->saveXML();
?>
With following file my.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="my.xsl" ?>
<my-root />
and existing file my.xsl that code will transform the xml file using my.xsl and output the result.
jbarnett at flowershopnetwork dot com
11-Sep-2007 01:46
The order of nodes in the return value is not guaranteed.
When my code was on an old server, the returned DOMNodeList was in document order. On the new server, the returned DOMNodeList is in a consistent order, but it is not in document order.
PHP passes this function call off to the xmlXPathEvalExpression() function in libxml. That function in libxml only accepts two arguments - the same two this PHP function accepts. There must have been a change in the libxml version from the old server to the new server, and that libxml behaves differently.
This would be okay if PHP had a way to compare nodes so I can resort the nodes manually, but there is not.
So, there is no guaranteed way to get an ordered list of nodes like DOM 3 XPath provides.
Hayley Watson
12-Aug-2007 05:43
Note that if your DOMDocument was loaded from HTML, where element and attribute names are case-insensitive, the DOM parser converts them all to lower-case, so your XPath queries will have to as well; '//A/@HREF' won't find anything even if the original HTML contained "<A HREF='example.com'>".
nicolas_rainardNOSPAM at yahoo dot fr
10-Jul-2007 02:04
Please note that what clochix says is valid for *any* document which has a default namespace (as it is the case for XHTML).
This document :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<root xmlns="http://www.exemple.org/namespace">
<element id="1">
...
</element>
<element id="2">
...
</element>
</element>
must be accessed this way :
$document = new DOMDocument();
$document->load('document.xml');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($document);
$xpath->registerNameSpace('fakeprefix', 'http://www.exemple.org/namespace');
$elements = $xpath->query('//fakeprefix:element');
Of course, there is no prefix in the original document, but the DOMXPath class *needs* one, whatever it is, if you use a default namespace. It *doesn't work* if you specify an empty prefix like this :
$xpath->registerNameSpace('', 'http://www.exemple.org/namespace');
Hope this help to spare some time...
clochix at clochix dot net
01-Mar-2007 04:05
If you want to perform queries on XHTML documents, you must fix a default namespace:
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = true;
$doc->resolveExternals = true; // for character entities
$doc->load("http://www.w3.org/");
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
// won't work
$entries = $xpath->query("//div");
// you should use :
$xpath->registerNamespace("html", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");
$entries = $xpath->query("//html:div");
ckrack at i-z dot de
22-Dec-2005 07:27
tried finding a node by it's text content?
// Get all elements that equal the string "test"
$query = "//*[.='test']";
jakob dot voss at nichtich dot de
14-Nov-2005 12:33
You can transform the result nodes into new DOMDocument objects this way:
<?php
$result = $xpath->query($query);
$resultNode = $result->item(0);
$newDom = new DOMDocument;
$newDom->appendChild($newDom->importNode($resultNode,1));
print "<pre>" . htmlspecialchars($newDom->saveXML()) . "</pre>";
?>
Eric Hanson
12-Jul-2005 05:40
Two great XPath references follow.
XPath in Five Paragraphs (finally!):
http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XPathIn5.htm
The w3c spec actually has a bunch of helpful examples:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#location-paths