PHP xpath() Function

The xpath() function runs an XPath query on the XML document.

This function returns an array of SimpleXMLElements on success, and FALSE of failure.

class SimpleXMLElement
{
string xpath(path)
}

Example -

XML File

PHP Code

The output of the code above will be:

Array
(
[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
  (
  [0] => Jani
  )
)

ParameterDescription
pathRequired. Specifies what to search for in the XML document