How to use XPath on an Array within SimpleXMLElement?

Question

I seem to be running into a problem. Considering the follow XML structure:

<data> <row> <id>1</id> <name>Peter</name> </row> <row> <id>2</id> <name>Ryan</name> </row> <row> <id>3</id> <name>Mike</name> </row> </data>

It returns a SXE object named "data" which contains an array "row" which consists of more SXE objects.

I'm using XPath and I want to find the row which has "id = 2". But I don't think you can XPath your way through arrays, so what am I to do?

Edit: Oh, I found the answer. You CAN use XPath

$table->xpath('data/row[id=2]')

Gerben Jacobs · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-05 09:08:37Z

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Oh, I found the answer. You CAN use XPath

$table->xpath('data/row[id=2]')

answered Apr 5, 2011 at 9:08

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