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Posted by Jordan Miller on 08/24/05 22:04
Yes, simplexml can do this easily. See:
http://www.php.net/simplexml
> Example 7. Setting values
>
> Data in SimpleXML doesn't have to be constant. The object allows
> for manipulation of all of its elements.
>
> <?php
> include 'example.php';
> $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
>
> $xml->movie[0]->characters->character[0]->name = 'Miss Coder';
>
> echo $xml->asXML();
> ?>
> The above code will output a new XML document, just like the
> original, except that the new XML will change Ms. Coder to Miss Coder.
>
Uros, it looks like you want to change one of the attributes; you
will need to use some of this code to handle the attributes:
> Example 4. Using attributes
>
> So far, we have only covered the work of reading element names and
> their values. SimpleXML can also access element attributes. Access
> attributes of an element just as you would elements of an array.
>
> <?php
> include 'example.php';
>
> $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
>
> /* Access the <rating> nodes of the first movie.
> * Output the rating scale, too. */
> foreach ($xml->movie[0]->rating as $rating) {
> switch((string) $rating['type']) { // Get attributes as element
> indices
> case 'thumbs':
> echo $rating, ' thumbs up';
> break;
> case 'stars':
> echo $rating, ' stars';
> break;
> }
> }
> ?>
>
regards,
Jordan
On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:20 AM, Uroš Gruber wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have XML and I would like to set some values. I almost done the
> whole thing but have some problems when looping through some tags
>
> <foo>
> <bar id="1" name="bar1" />
> <bar id="2" name="bar2" />
> ...
> </foo>
>
> I would like to set value for tag "bar" in some loop and then
> export this back to XML. Is this even possible or it's better to
> use SimpleXML only for read and create new XML from it.
>
> XML is about 20 rows of data and I'm using PHP 5.0.4 with all XML
> included.
>
> regards
>
> Uros
>
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