Posted by Jay Paulson on 01/20/06 19:36

I was wondering if there is a way to get the number of foo elements in my
XML below? This way I could loop through each element and print out the
attributes.

$string = "<a>
<foo name=\"one\" game=\"lonely\">1</foo>
<foo name=\"two\" game=\"again\">2</foo>
<foo name=\"three\" game=\"blah\">3</foo>
<foo name=\"four\" game=\"goodness\">4</foo>
</a>";

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
// this doesn't return the correct number of elements but instead returns
the data inbetween <foo></foo>
$cnt = count($xml->foo);
for($i=0; $i<$cnt; $i++) {
foreach($xml->foo[$i]->attributes() as $a => $b) {
echo $a,'="',$b,"\"\n";
}
}

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