PHP Manual: The SimpleXMLIterator class

Introduction

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

Class synopsis

SimpleXMLIterator

extends SimpleXMLElement

/* Inherited methods */

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

public void addAttribute(string $qualifiedName, string $value, stringnull $namespace = null)

public SimpleXMLElementnull addChild(string $qualifiedName, stringnull $value = null, stringnull $namespace = null)

public stringbool asXML(stringnull $filename = null)

public SimpleXMLElementnull attributes(stringnull $namespaceOrPrefix = null, bool $isPrefix = false)

public SimpleXMLElementnull children(stringnull $namespaceOrPrefix = null, bool $isPrefix = false)

public int count()

public SimpleXMLElement current()

public arrayfalse getDocNamespaces(bool $recursive = false, bool $fromRoot = true)

public string getName()

public array getNamespaces(bool $recursive = false)

public SimpleXMLElementnull getChildren()

public bool hasChildren()

public string key()

public void next()

public bool registerXPathNamespace(string $prefix, string $namespace)

public void rewind()

public string __toString()

public bool valid()

public arraynullfalse xpath(string $expression)

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.