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<h1 class="refname">DOMNode::getNodePath</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">DOMNode::getNodePath</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get an XPath for a node</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>DOMNode::getNodePath</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Gets an XPath location path for the node.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns a <span class="type"><a href="language.types.string.html" class="type string">string</a></span> containing the XPath, or <strong><code>NULL</code></strong> in case of an error.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="methodname"><strong>DOMNode::getNodePath()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Create a new DOMDocument instance<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMDocument</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Load the XML<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">loadXML</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'<br /><fruits><br /> <apples><br /> <apple>braeburn</apple><br /> <apple>granny smith</apple><br /> </apples><br /> <pears><br /> <pear>conference</pear><br /> </pears><br /></fruits><br />'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Print XPath for each element<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">foreach (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getElementsByTagName</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'*'</span><span style="color: #007700">) as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$node</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getNodePath</span><span style="color: #007700">() . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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/fruits
/fruits/apples
/fruits/apples/apple[1]
/fruits/apples/apple[2]
/fruits/pears
/fruits/pears/pear
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"><a href="class.domxpath.html" class="classname">DOMXPath</a></li>
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