Comments on: Add Children with SimpleXML

By: Steve (noob)

Steve (noob) — Tue, 30 May 2006 14:04:51 +0000

Please, im a very new to php and xml:
if i have books.xml that contains:

how do i use this code to add a book? everything i tried errored.
Could you please email me an example? thank you very much in advance, i am very grateful!

By: SteamSHIFT

SteamSHIFT — Fri, 12 May 2006 11:32:56 +0000

NB: It’s worth re-iterating this requires at least PHP version 5.1.3

By: SteamSHIFT

SteamSHIFT — Fri, 12 May 2006 10:04:39 +0000

If only I had seen this a mere week ago!!! After some considerable work, I have managed to do this in the DOM – but it is such hard work. Many Many Thanks for this.

By: Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:23:47 +0000

Thanks for the clarification on that, Adam. I think my problem was that I wasn’t using a proper XPath query, so the function wasn’t doing anything for me.

By: Adam Trachtenberg

Adam Trachtenberg — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:19:18 +0000

The registerXPathNamespace() function allows you to associate a prefix with an XML Namespace URI. A prefix is necessary to make XPath queries against elements that live under a namespace. (e.g. ”//xhtml:p” to find all “p” elements in the namespace bound to the “xhtml” prefix.)

Use this function when needing to access namespaced elements under a default namespace to create a prefix for that namespace. It’s also helpful when you cannot control the XML document you’re consuming and the provider may alter namespace prefixes without warning.

By: Robert K

Robert K — Thu, 11 May 2006 05:29:53 +0000

fuckin A man! that’s awesome!