The SimpleXMLIterator class

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Introduction

The SimpleXMLIterator provides recursive iteration over all nodes of a SimpleXMLElement object.

Class synopsis

class SimpleXMLIterator extends SimpleXMLElement {

/* Inherited methods */

public function SimpleXMLElement::__construct(
    string $data,
    int $options = 0,
    bool $dataIsURL = false,
    string $namespaceOrPrefix = "",
    bool $isPrefix = false
)

public function SimpleXMLElement::addAttribute(string $qualifiedName, string $value, ?string $namespace = null): void

public function SimpleXMLElement::addChild(string $qualifiedName, ?string $value = null, ?string $namespace = null): ?SimpleXMLElement

public function SimpleXMLElement::asXML(?string $filename = null): string|bool

public function SimpleXMLElement::attributes(?string $namespaceOrPrefix = null, bool $isPrefix = false): ?SimpleXMLElement

public function SimpleXMLElement::children(?string $namespaceOrPrefix = null, bool $isPrefix = false): ?SimpleXMLElement

public function SimpleXMLElement::count(): int

public function SimpleXMLElement::current(): SimpleXMLElement

public function SimpleXMLElement::getDocNamespaces(bool $recursive = false, bool $fromRoot = true): array|false

public function SimpleXMLElement::getName(): string

public function SimpleXMLElement::getNamespaces(bool $recursive = false): array

public function SimpleXMLElement::getChildren(): ?SimpleXMLElement

public function SimpleXMLElement::hasChildren(): bool

public function SimpleXMLElement::key(): string

public function SimpleXMLElement::next(): void

public function SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace(string $prefix, string $namespace): bool

public function SimpleXMLElement::rewind(): void

public function SimpleXMLElement::__toString(): string

public function SimpleXMLElement::valid(): bool

public function SimpleXMLElement::xpath(string $expression): array|null|false

}

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	Iterator methods (SimpleXMLIterator::hasChildren(), SimpleXMLIterator::getChildren(), SimpleXMLIterator::current(), SimpleXMLIterator::key(), SimpleXMLIterator::next(),SimpleXMLIterator::rewind(), SimpleXMLIterator::valid()) were moved to SimpleXMLElement.
8.0.0	SimpleXMLIterator implements Stringable now.