Get value from attribute

Question

I got a XML tree:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<tree>
    <message name="login_form_empty">Vergeten in te vullen</message>
    <message name="signup_form_empty">Vergeten in te vullen</message>
    <message name="forgotpass_form_empty">Vergeten in te vullen</message>
</tree>

Is it possible to get the value from example: login_form_empty?

Thanks!

Yes, it is possible. Have a look at the PHP documentation: http://php.net/simplexml — ComFreek, Jan 10 '14 at 14:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 10 '14 at 14:59

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Use xPath to access the XML values. Something like this xPath statement should work:

//tree/message/@name

edited Jan 10 '14 at 14:59

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '14 at 15:10

Certainly, use a XML->object converter like SimpleXML and use xPath to find the right elements.

<?php 
$string = '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<tree>
    <message name="login_form_empty">Vergeten in te vullen</message>
    <message name="signup_form_empty">Vergeten in te vullen</message>
    <message name="forgotpass_form_empty">Vergeten in te vullen</message>
</tree>'; 

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string); 
$login_form_empty = $xml->xpath('/tree/message[@name="login_form_empty"]');

foreach ($login_form_empty as $result) {
    echo $result;
}

?>

Get value from attribute

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