The SimpleXMLIterator class

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.3, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Introduction

The SimpleXMLIterator provides recursive iteration over all nodes of a SimpleXMLElement object.

Class synopsis

class SimpleXMLIterator extends SimpleXMLElement {
/* Inherited methods */
public SimpleXMLElement::__construct(
    string $data,
    int $options = 0,
    bool $dataIsURL = false,
    string $namespaceOrPrefix = "",
    bool $isPrefix = false
)
public SimpleXMLElement::addAttribute(string $qualifiedName, string $value, ?string $namespace = null): void
public SimpleXMLElement::addChild(string $qualifiedName, ?string $value = null, ?string $namespace = null): ?SimpleXMLElement
public SimpleXMLElement::asXML(?string $filename = null): string|bool
public SimpleXMLElement::attributes(?string $namespaceOrPrefix = null, bool $isPrefix = false): ?SimpleXMLElement
public SimpleXMLElement::children(?string $namespaceOrPrefix = null, bool $isPrefix = false): ?SimpleXMLElement
public SimpleXMLElement::count(): int
public SimpleXMLElement::current(): SimpleXMLElement
public SimpleXMLElement::getDocNamespaces(bool $recursive = false, bool $fromRoot = true): array|false
public SimpleXMLElement::getName(): string
public SimpleXMLElement::getNamespaces(bool $recursive = false): array
public SimpleXMLElement::getChildren(): ?SimpleXMLElement
public SimpleXMLElement::hasChildren(): bool
public SimpleXMLElement::key(): string
public SimpleXMLElement::next(): void
public SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace(string $prefix, string $namespace): bool
public SimpleXMLElement::rewind(): void
public SimpleXMLElement::__toString(): string
public SimpleXMLElement::valid(): bool
public SimpleXMLElement::xpath(string $expression): array|null|false
}

Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 Iterator methods (SimpleXMLIterator::hasChildren(), SimpleXMLIterator::getChildren(), SimpleXMLIterator::current(), SimpleXMLIterator::key(), SimpleXMLIterator::next(),SimpleXMLIterator::rewind(), SimpleXMLIterator::valid()) were moved to SimpleXMLElement.
8.0.0 SimpleXMLIterator implements Stringable now.