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SimpleXMLElement::children

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SimpleXMLElement::children指定したノードの子ノードを見付ける

説明

public SimpleXMLElement::children(?string $namespaceOrPrefix = null, bool $isPrefix = false): ?SimpleXMLElement

このメソッドは、指定した要素の子を見つけます。 結果は、通常の反復子により取得できます。

注意: SimpleXML では、ほとんどのメソッドに反復処理を追加するための手順が定義されています。 これらは、var_dump() やオブジェクトを評価する他の手段で 見ることはできません。

パラメータ

namespaceOrPrefix

XML 名前空間。

isPrefix

isPrefixtrue の場合は namespaceOrPrefix をプレフィックスとして扱います。false の場合は namespaceOrPrefix を名前空間 URL として扱います。

戻り値

ノードが子を持つかどうかにかかわらず SimpleXMLElement 要素を返します。 ノードが属性である場合は、null を返します。

例1 children() 疑似配列を走査する

<?php
$xml
= new SimpleXMLElement(
'<person>
<child role="son">
<child role="daughter"/>
</child>
<child role="daughter">
<child role="son">
<child role="son"/>
</child>
</child>
</person>'
);

foreach (
$xml->children() as $second_gen) {
echo
' The person begot a ' . $second_gen['role'];

foreach (
$second_gen->children() as $third_gen) {
echo
' who begot a ' . $third_gen['role'] . ';';

foreach (
$third_gen->children() as $fourth_gen) {
echo
' and that ' . $third_gen['role'] .
' begot a ' . $fourth_gen['role'];
}
}
}
?>

上の例の出力は以下となります。

The person begot a son who begot a daughter; The person
begot a daughter who begot a son; and that son begot a son

例2 名前空間の使用

<?php
$xml
= '<example xmlns:foo="my.foo.urn">
<foo:a>Apple</foo:a>
<foo:b>Banana</foo:b>
<c>Cherry</c>
</example>'
;

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);

$kids = $sxe->children('foo');
var_dump(count($kids));

$kids = $sxe->children('foo', TRUE);
var_dump(count($kids));

$kids = $sxe->children('my.foo.urn');
var_dump(count($kids));

$kids = $sxe->children('my.foo.urn', TRUE);
var_dump(count($kids));

$kids = $sxe->children();
var_dump(count($kids));
?>
int(0)
int(2)
int(2)
int(0)
int(1)

参考

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User Contributed Notes 15 notes

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aero
16 years ago
Here's a simple, recursive, function to transform XML data into pseudo E4X syntax ie. root.child.value = foobar

<?php
error_reporting
(E_ALL);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement(
'<Patriarch>
<name>Bill</name>
<wife>
<name>Vi</name>
</wife>
<son>
<name>Bill</name>
</son>
<daughter>
<name>Jeri</name>
<husband>
<name>Mark</name>
</husband>
<son>
<name>Greg</name>
</son>
<son>
<name>Tim</name>
</son>
<son>
<name>Mark</name>
</son>
<son>
<name>Josh</name>
<wife>
<name>Kristine</name>
</wife>
<son>
<name>Blake</name>
</son>
<daughter>
<name>Liah</name>
</daughter>
</son>
</daughter>
</Patriarch>'
);

RecurseXML($xml);

function
RecurseXML($xml,$parent="")
{
$child_count = 0;
foreach(
$xml as $key=>$value)
{
$child_count++;
if(
RecurseXML($value,$parent.".".$key) == 0) // no childern, aka "leaf node"
{
print(
$parent . "." . (string)$key . " = " . (string)$value . "<BR>\n");
}
}
return
$child_count;
}

?>

The output....

.name = Bill
.wife.name = Vi
.son.name = Bill
.daughter.name = Jeri
.daughter.husband.name = Mark
.daughter.son.name = Greg
.daughter.son.name = Tim
.daughter.son.name = Mark
.daughter.son.name = Josh
.daughter.son.wife.name = Kristine
.daughter.son.son.name = Blake
.daughter.son.daughter.name = Liah
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6
Sebastian
18 years ago
Just a quick addition:

If you need to access a child node which contains a dash, you need to encapsulate it with {""}.

For example:
<?php
foreach ($domain->domain-listing as $product) {
}
?>

The example above doesn't work because of the dash. But instead you need to use:
<?php
foreach ($domain->{"domain-listing"} as $product) {
}
?>

At least for me the second example works perfectly fine.
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2
transglobe at gmx dot de
15 years ago
I made a slightly differnt approch towards the RecurseXML function. Beeing hungry I had problems with the code, as it did just overwrite two <maincourse>s. So here is what I did:

<?php

$xml
= new SimpleXMLElement(
'<meal>
<type>Lunch</type>
<time>12:30</time>
<menu>
<entree>salad</entree>
<maincourse>
<part>ships</part>
<part>steak</part>
</maincourse>
<maincourse>
<part>fisch</part>
<part>rice</part>
</maincourse>
<maincourse>
<part>wine</part>
<part>cheese</part>
</maincourse>
</menu>
</meal>'
);

$vals = array();
RecurseXML($xml,$vals);

foreach(
$vals as $key=>$value)
print(
"{$key} = {$value}<BR>\n");

function
RecurseXML($xml,&$vals,$parent="") {

$childs=0;
$child_count=-1; # Not realy needed.
$arr=array();
foreach (
$xml->children() as $key=>$value) {
if (
in_array($key,$arr)) {
$child_count++;
} else {
$child_count=0;
}
$arr[]=$key;
$k=($parent == "") ? "$key.$child_count" : "$parent.$key.$child_count";
$childs=RecurseXML($value,$vals,$k);
if (
$childs==0) {
$vals[$k]= (string)$value;
}
}

return
$childs;
}

?>
Output is like this:
type.0 = Lunch
time.0 = 12:30
menu.0.entree.0 = salad
menu.0.maincourse.0.part.0 = ships
menu.0.maincourse.0.part.1 = steak
menu.0.maincourse.0 =
menu.0.maincourse.1.part.0 = fisch
menu.0.maincourse.1.part.1 = rice
menu.0.maincourse.1 =
menu.0.maincourse.2.part.0 = wine
menu.0.maincourse.2.part.1 = cheese
menu.0.maincourse.2 =
menu.0 =

(Not beautiful, but it solved my case...)
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0
boan dot web at outlook dot com
5 years ago
SimpleXMLElement::children can return null in this case:

<?php
$xml
= '
<root attr="Hello"/>
'
;

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);

$sxe_xpath = $sxe->xpath('/root/@attr')[0];

$children = $sxe_xpath->children();

var_export($children); // Is null
?>
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0
Anonymous
13 years ago
Here's my xml-to-array routine. Unlike many of the other comments here, this one takes namespaces into account.

<?php

class XmlArray {

public function
load_dom ($xml) {
$node=simplexml_import_dom($xml);
return
$this->add_node($node);
}

public function
load_string ($s) {
$node=simplexml_load_string($s);
return
$this->add_node($node);
}

private function
add_node ($node, &$parent=null, $namespace='', $recursive=false) {

$namespaces = $node->getNameSpaces(true);
$content="$node";

$r['name']=$node->getName();
if (!
$recursive) {
$tmp=array_keys($node->getNameSpaces(false));
$r['namespace']=$tmp[0];
$r['namespaces']=$namespaces;
}
if (
$namespace) $r['namespace']=$namespace;
if (
$content) $r['content']=$content;

foreach (
$namespaces as $pre=>$ns) {
foreach (
$node->children($ns) as $k=>$v) {
$this->add_node($v, $r['children'], $pre, true);
}
foreach (
$node->attributes($ns) as $k=>$v) {
$r['attributes'][$k]="$pre:$v";
}
}
foreach (
$node->children() as $k=>$v) {
$this->add_node($v, $r['children'], '', true);
}
foreach (
$node->attributes() as $k=>$v) {
$r['attributes'][$k]="$v";
}

$parent[]=&$r;
return
$parent[0];

}

}

?>
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Andrew Rose (rose dot andrew at gmail dot com)
19 years ago
The example below shows the basic use of depth-first recursion to span the xml tree.

This is coded for the command line, and it prints out the original sentance above and then the copy cat sentence it creates itself for comparison, which as you will see; this example is slightly off from, I'll leave it upto you to resolve this issue.

All in all I personaly think xml and recursion go hand in hand, so if you don't understand recursion but know xml and want to use php to manipulate xml you will need to learn about recursion at some point.

<?php
$xml
= simplexml_load_string(
'<person>
<child role="son">
<child role="daughter"/>
</child>
<child role="daughter">
<child role="son">
<child role="son"/>
</child>
</child>
</person>'
);

function
recurse($child)
{
foreach(
$child->children() as $children) {
echo
' who begot a '.$children['role'];
recurse($children);
}
return;
}

foreach(
$xml->children() as $children) {
echo
'The person begot a '.$children['role'];
recurse($children, 0);
echo
'; ';
}

echo
"\n";
echo
'The person begot a son who begot a daughter; The person begot a daughter who begot a son; and that son begot a son'."\n";

?>
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mrdaniellee at live dot com
14 years ago
use this If you want to view the HTML as well as data.

normal dumps display the parsed versions of HTML.
This code displays the HTML as Text in a Text Area, and also display all other a data along side as an array

perfect for debugging (xml with html).

Try This Code:

<?php
$xml
= simplexml_load_file($url);

function
xml2array_parse($xml){
foreach (
$xml->children() as $parent => $child){
$return["$parent"] = xml2array_parse($child)?xml2array_parse($child):"$child";
}
return
$return;
}

print
"<pre><textarea style=\"width:200%;height:100%;\">";
print_r(xml2array_parse($xml));
print
"</textarea></pre>";
?>
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-1
Anonymous
15 years ago
for XML namespaces such as <dc:creator> in RSS feeds use

<?php
$xml
= new SimpleXMLElement($string);
$item = $xml->channel[0]->item[0];
$dc = $item->children("http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/");
echo
$dc->creator;
?>
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-1
coldshine1 at rambler dot ru
13 years ago
This is my recursive simple function to parse XML with attributes.

<?php
function ParseXML($node, &$parent=array(), $only_child=true) {

//Current node name
$node_name = $node->getName();

//Let's count children
$only_child = true;
if(
$node->count() > 1 ) $only_child = false;

//If there is no child, then there may be text data
if($only_child){
$content="$node";
if (
strlen($content)>0) $parent['content']=$content;
}

//Get attributes of current node
foreach ($node->attributes() as $k=>$v) {
$parent['@attributes'][$k]="$v";
}

//Get children
$count = 0;
foreach (
$node->children() as $child_name=>$child_node) {
if(!
$only_child) //If there are siblings then we'll add node to the end of the array
LGServerPVR::ParseXML($child_node, $parent[$node_name][$child_name][$count], $only_child);
else
LGServerPVR::ParseXML($child_node, $parent[$node_name][$child_name], $only_child);
$count++;
}

return
$parent;
//(c) c01d[s]h!nE 10.12.2010
}

?>
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thetazzbot at gmail dot com
12 years ago
Ok so say you have this xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE nitf
PUBLIC "-//IPTC-NAA//DTD NITF 3.1//EN"
"http://www.nitf.org/site/nitf-documentation/nitf-3-1.dtd">
<nitf>
<head>
<docdata management-status="embargoed">
<!--data/2011/08/23/parties/doc4e53aa5783cca930694817.txt-->
<doc-id id-string="doc4e53aa5783cca930694817"/>
<date.release norm="20110823T000000"/>
<key-list/>
</docdata>
<pubdata type="web" position.section="parties" position.sequence="0"/>
</head>

-- snip --

If you need to access the nodes named "like.this" such as the date.release above, here is how I did it:

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xhtml);
echo (string)$xml->head->docdata->{"date.release"}["norm"];

Took me a while to figure that one out ;)
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no-one
18 years ago
For anyone who hasn't read Sterling Hughe's article (http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-simplexml.php):

<?php
$xml_document
=<<<EOT
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root xmlns:foo="http://example.com">
<foo:bar>baz</foo:bar>
</root>
EOT;

$xml_document = simplexml_load_xml($xml_document);

$foo_ns_bar = $xml_document->children('http://example.com');

echo
$foo_ns_bar->bar[0]; // prints 'baz'
?>
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rodmen at gmail dot com
14 years ago
Transform xml to array php

<?php
function xml2phpArray($xml,$arr){
$iter = 0;
foreach(
$xml->children() as $b){
$a = $b->getName();
if(!
$b->children()){
$arr[$a] = trim($b[0]);
}
else{
$arr[$a][$iter] = array();
$arr[$a][$iter] = xml2phpArray($b,$arr[$a][$iter]);
}
$iter++;
}
return
$arr;
}

$Array = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents('myfile.xml'));
print_r(xml2phpArray($Array,array()));
?>
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taylorbarstow at that google mail thingy
17 years ago
Sometimes you actually want an array, not a pseudo array. This is especially true when you aren't dealing with attributes (i.e., you just want the array of child nodes).

Do like this:

<?php
$children
= $sxml->xpath('child::node()');
?>

The reason you might want this is to be able to use array functions like array_shift, array_pop, etc. This is especially true when you are writing recursive functions. Simplexml works really well in iterative programming, but if you try to implement recursion it gets ugly.
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crescentfreshpot at yahoo dot com
16 years ago
Just a warning that the iterable returned from children() contains the '@attributes' key, which is "invisible" during a foreach but can be seen if using a different construct, such as list()=each() or casting to an array before iterating w/ foreach.
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zyxwvu at users dot sourceforge dot net
20 years ago
File:

<category>
<item>text</item>
<bold>text</bold>
<item>text</item>
<item>text</item>
<mark>text</mark>
<bold>text</bold>
</category>

If you want to get also names of the tags, you can use this loop layout:

<?php
foreach($category -> children() as $name => $node){
echo
$name.'<br/>';
}
?>
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