how to set text for a SimpleXMLElement in php?
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A:
Did you look at the basic documentation examples?
From there:
include 'example.php';
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
$xml->movie[0]->characters->character[0]->name = 'Miss Coder';
echo $xml->asXML();
alxp
2010-06-03 23:49:03
what if I need to set an element's text without knowing its parent? in other words, the element has already being created,perhaps with some attributes.
2010-06-04 00:21:45
For that you use the XPath syntax to make a query like:foreach ($xml->xpath('//character') as $character) { echo $character->name, 'played by ', $character->actor, '<br />';}
alxp
2010-06-04 05:25:14
A:
$xml = SimpleXMLElement('<a><b><c></c></b></a>');
$foundNodes = $xml->xpath('//c');
$foundNode = $foundNodes[0];
$foundNode->{0} = "This text will be put inside of c tag.";
$xml->asXML();
// will output <a><b><c>This text will be put inside of c tag.</c></b></a>
More on my search of this answer here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3153477/how-can-i-set-text-value-of-simplexmlelement-without-using-its-parent
Kamil Szot
2010-06-30 21:57:34