Read name and values of node using value of attribute in PHP XPATH

Question

I am using PHP DOM XPATH. I have XML structure as below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root xmlns:rank="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <rank:one year = "2015">99</<rank:one>
    <rank:two year = "2014">128</rank:two>
    <rank:three year = "2015">27</rank:three>
</root>

where I want to get name and value of node where year is 2015

expected output is rank:one -- 99 and rank:three -- 27 I tried to write xpath query as

$xpath->query('//root/[@year="2015"]');

I am not getting what should be xpath expression in this case

zx485 · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-11 13:20:11Z

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The XPath expression should be

$xpath->query('//root/*[@year="2015"]');

Then you can use name() and text() to get its name and value, respectively.

answered Sep 11, 2017 at 13:20

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hrishi Over a year ago

Thanks. Exactly what I want.

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