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The result follows normal iteration rules. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Notã: </B >SimpleXML has made a rule of adding iterative properties to most methods. They cannot be viewed using<A HREF="function.var-dump.html" ><B CLASS="function" >var_dump()</B ></A > or anything else which can examine objects.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN103917" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. Traversing a <VAR CLASS="literal" >children()</VAR > pseudo-array</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$xml </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">simplexml_load_string</font><font color="#007700">(<br /></font><font color="#DD0000">'<person><br /> <child role="son"><br /> <child role="daughter"/><br /> </child><br /> <child role="daughter"><br /> <child role="son"><br /> <child role="son"/><br /> </child><br /> </child><br /></person>'</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br />foreach (</font><font color="#0000BB">$xml</font><font color="#007700">-></font><font color="#0000BB">children</font><font color="#007700">() as </font><font color="#0000BB">$second_gen</font><font color="#007700">) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">' The person begot a ' </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#0000BB">$second_gen</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#DD0000">'role'</font><font color="#007700">];<br /><br /> foreach (</font><font color="#0000BB">$second_gen</font><font color="#007700">-></font><font color="#0000BB">children</font><font color="#007700">() as </font><font color="#0000BB">$third_gen</font><font color="#007700">) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">' who begot a ' </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#0000BB">$third_gen</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#DD0000">'role'</font><font color="#007700">] . </font><font color="#DD0000">';'</font><font color="#007700">;<br /> <br /> foreach (</font><font color="#0000BB">$third_gen</font><font color="#007700">-></font><font color="#0000BB">children</font><font color="#007700">() as </font><font color="#0000BB">$fourth_gen</font><font color="#007700">) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">' and that ' </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#0000BB">$third_gen</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#DD0000">'role'</font><font color="#007700">] .<br /> </font><font color="#DD0000">' begot a ' </font><font color="#007700">. </font><font color="#0000BB">$fourth_gen</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#DD0000">'role'</font><font color="#007700">];<br /> }<br /> }<br />}<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This script will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >The person begot a son who begot a daughter; The person begot a daughter who begot a son; and that son begot a son</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.simplexml-element-attributes.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.simplexml-element-xpath.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >simplexml_element->attributes</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.simplexml.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >simplexml_element->xpath</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >