xpath finding absolute path is there any easy way?

Question

I have tried to find a way to \"bookmark\" an element on a page so i will later on be able to check on it. everything I\'ve tried so far lead me to some problem so I\'ve cam

Answer 1

You might be looking for DOMNode::getNodePath(). A quick example:

$xml = <<<XML
<blaah1 name="whatever">
    <gender name="male">

        <example1 baseurl="male/86644/">
            <x u="lol.png"/>
            <x u="haha.png"/>
            <x u="name.png"/>
        </example1>

        <example2 baseurl="male/27827/">
            <x u="page.png"/>
            <x u="examp.png"/>
            <x u="bottom.png"/>
        </example2>
    </gender>
</blaah1>
XML;

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($xml);
$xp = new DOMXPath($doc);
foreach($xp->query('//node()') as $node ) {

    echo $node->getNodePath(), "\n";

}

And it's output:

/blaah1
/blaah1/text()[1]
/blaah1/gender
/blaah1/gender/text()[1]
/blaah1/gender/example1
/blaah1/gender/example1/text()[1]
/blaah1/gender/example1/x[1]
/blaah1/gender/example1/text()[2]
/blaah1/gender/example1/x[2]
/blaah1/gender/example1/text()[3]
/blaah1/gender/example1/x[3]
/blaah1/gender/example1/text()[4]
/blaah1/gender/text()[2]
/blaah1/gender/example2
/blaah1/gender/example2/text()[1]
/blaah1/gender/example2/x[1]
/blaah1/gender/example2/text()[2]
/blaah1/gender/example2/x[2]
/blaah1/gender/example2/text()[3]
/blaah1/gender/example2/x[3]
/blaah1/gender/example2/text()[4]
/blaah1/gender/text()[3]
/blaah1/text()[2]