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Using XPath and SimpleXML in a basic example
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<?
$s = simplexml_load_file('address-book.xml');
$emails = $s->xpath('/address-book/person/email');
foreach ($emails as $email) {
// do something with $email
}
?>
//
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<address-book>
<person id="1">
<firstname>D</firstname>
<lastname>S</lastname>
<city>New York</city>
<state>NY</state>
<email>s@php.net</email>
</person>
<person id="2">
<firstname>A</firstname>
<lastname>T</lastname>
<city>San Francisco</city>
<state>CA</state>
<email>a@php.net</email>
</person>
</address-book>
]]>