How to get value of XML Element Attribute from xml file in php with DOMXPath

Question

here is simple XML File and i need to get the value of unitCode and i am using DOMXPath object to get the values.

<cbc:ConsumerUnitQuantity unitCode="BX">
    80.000
</cbc:ConsumerUnitQuantity>

i have tried

$unitCode = $xpath->query('//cbc:ConsumerUnitQuantity [@unitCode=""]')->item(0);

Can you paste a more complete XML example with the cbc namespace definition? — Rolando Isidoro
– Rolando Isidoro, Commented Dec 18, 2013 at 11:01

ThW · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-18 11:12:37Z

1

You're missing the namespace. You XML elements have a namespace prefix, but you did not register one on the Xpath object. Check you document for a xmlns:cbc attribute.

$xml = <<<'XML'
<cbc:ConsumerUnitQuantity xmlns:cbc="your-namespace" unitCode="BX">
    80.000
</cbc:ConsumerUnitQuantity>
XML;

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadXml($xml);

$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
$xpath->registerNamespace('ns-cbc', 'your-namespace');

var_dump(
  $xpath->evaluate('string(//ns-cbc:ConsumerUnitQuantity)', NULL, FALSE)
);

Unlike DOMXpath::query(), DOMXpath::evaluate() can return scalar values directly.

answered Dec 18, 2013 at 11:12

ThW

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