Fetch specific tag with an attribute value from XML

Question

I have a XML file like the following:

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Answer 1

You best express that with an Xpath expression:

$owner = ($nodes = $xml_sales->xpath('//FL[@val = "Sales Order Owner"][1]')) 
         ? (string) $nodes[0] 
         : NULL;

This will give:

Adithya Buddhavarapu

in your case. If the element is not found it is NULL.

//FL[@val = "Sales Order Owner"][1]

This is the xpath expression. It reads:

Take any FL element of the document that has the val attribute with the value "Sales Order Owner" that is the first element ([1]).

If you need that per row, it works similar, just run the xpath per row. See SimpleXMLElement::xpath.