SimpleXML: Selecting Elements Which Have A Certain Attribute Value

Question

In an XML document, I have elements which share the same name, but the value of an attribute defines what type of data it is, and I want to select all of those elements whic

Answer 1

I just made a function to do this for me; it only grabs the first result though. Your mileage may vary.

function query_attribute($xmlNode, $attr_name, $attr_value) {
  foreach($xmlNode as $node) { 
    if($node[$attr_name] == $attr_value) {
        return $node;
    }
  }
}

Usage:

echo query_attribute($MySimpleXmlNode->Customer, "type", "human")->Name;

(For the XML below)

Sam Jones