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<h1 class="title">The SimpleXMLElement class</h1>
<div class="partintro"><p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1)</p>
<div class="section" id="simplexmlelement.intro">
<h2 class="title">Introduction</h2>
<p class="para">
Represents an element in an XML document.
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<div class="section" id="simplexmlelement.synopsis">
<h2 class="title">Class synopsis</h2>
<div class="classsynopsis">
<div class="ooclass"></div>
<div class="classsynopsisinfo">
<span class="ooclass">
<strong class="classname">SimpleXMLElement</strong>
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<span class="oointerface">implements
<span class="interfacename"><a href="class.traversable.html" class="interfacename">Traversable</a></span>
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{</div>
<div class="classsynopsisinfo classsynopsisinfo_comment">/* Methods */</div>
<div class="constructorsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">final</span> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.construct.html" class="methodname">__construct</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$data</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$options</code><span class="initializer"> = 0</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$data_is_url</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$ns</code><span class="initializer"> = ""</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$is_prefix</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
]]]] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">void</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.addattribute.html" class="methodname">addAttribute</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$name</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$value</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$namespace</code></span>
]] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">SimpleXMLElement</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.addchild.html" class="methodname">addChild</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$name</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$value</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$namespace</code></span>
]] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">mixed</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.asxml.html" class="methodname">asXML</a></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$filename</code></span>
] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">SimpleXMLElement</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.attributes.html" class="methodname">attributes</a></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$ns</code><span class="initializer"> = <strong><code>NULL</code></strong></span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$is_prefix</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
]] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">SimpleXMLElement</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.children.html" class="methodname">children</a></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$ns</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$is_prefix</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
]] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.count.html" class="methodname">count</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
)</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.getdocnamespaces.html" class="methodname">getDocNamespaces</a></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$recursive</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$from_root</code><span class="initializer"> = true</span></span>
]] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.getname.html" class="methodname">getName</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
)</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.getnamespaces.html" class="methodname">getNamespaces</a></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$recursive</code><span class="initializer"> = false</span></span>
] )</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.registerxpathnamespace.html" class="methodname">registerXPathNamespace</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$prefix</code></span>
, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$ns</code></span>
)</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.tostring.html" class="methodname">__toString</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
)</div>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.xpath.html" class="methodname">xpath</a></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$path</code></span>
)</div>
}</div>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2><ul class="chunklist chunklist_reference"><li><a href="simplexmlelement.addattribute.html">SimpleXMLElement::addAttribute</a> — Adds an attribute to the SimpleXML element</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.addchild.html">SimpleXMLElement::addChild</a> — Adds a child element to the XML node</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.asxml.html">SimpleXMLElement::asXML</a> — Return a well-formed XML string based on SimpleXML element</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.attributes.html">SimpleXMLElement::attributes</a> — Identifies an element's attributes</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.children.html">SimpleXMLElement::children</a> — Finds children of given node</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.construct.html">SimpleXMLElement::__construct</a> — Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.count.html">SimpleXMLElement::count</a> — Counts the children of an element</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.getdocnamespaces.html">SimpleXMLElement::getDocNamespaces</a> — Returns namespaces declared in document</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.getname.html">SimpleXMLElement::getName</a> — Gets the name of the XML element</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.getnamespaces.html">SimpleXMLElement::getNamespaces</a> — Returns namespaces used in document</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.registerxpathnamespace.html">SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace</a> — Creates a prefix/ns context for the next XPath query</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.savexml.html">SimpleXMLElement::saveXML</a> — Alias of SimpleXMLElement::asXML</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.tostring.html">SimpleXMLElement::__toString</a> — Returns the string content</li><li><a href="simplexmlelement.xpath.html">SimpleXMLElement::xpath</a> — Runs XPath query on XML data</li></ul>
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