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PHP children() Function


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Definition and Usage

The children() function gets the child nodes of the specified XML node.

Syntax

class SimpleXMLElement
{
string children(ns,is_prefix)
}

Parameter Description
ns Optional
is_prefix Optional


Example

XML File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<note>
<to>Tove</to>
<from>Jani</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>

PHP Code

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("test.xml");

foreach ($xml->children() as $child)
  {
  echo "Child node: " . $child . "<br />";
  }
?>

The output of the code above will be:

Child node: Tove
Child node: Jani
Child node: Reminder
Child node: Don't forget me this weekend!


PHP SimpleXML Reference Complete PHP SimpleXML Reference

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