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It always returns an <A HREF="language.types.array.html" ><B CLASS="type" >array</B ></A > of simplexml_element objects. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN103941" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. Xpath</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$string </font><font color="#007700">= <<<XML<br /></font><font color="#0000BB"><a><br /> <b><br /> <c>text</c><br /> <c>stuff</c><br /> </b><br /> <d><br /> <c>code</c><br /> </d><br /></a><br /></font><font color="#007700">XML;<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$xml </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">simplexml_load_string</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$string</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br /></font><font color="#FF8000">/* Search for <a><b><c> */<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$result </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">$xml</font><font color="#007700">-></font><font color="#0000BB">xpath</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'/a/b/c'</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br />while(list( , </font><font color="#0000BB">$node</font><font color="#007700">) = </font><font color="#0000BB">each</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$result</font><font color="#007700">)) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">'/a/b/c: '</font><font color="#007700">,</font><font color="#0000BB">$node</font><font color="#007700">,</font><font color="#DD0000">"\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></font><font color="#FF8000">/* Relative paths also work... */<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$result </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">$xml</font><font color="#007700">-></font><font color="#0000BB">xpath</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'b/c'</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br />while(list( , </font><font color="#0000BB">$node</font><font color="#007700">) = </font><font color="#0000BB">each</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$result</font><font color="#007700">)) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">'b/c: '</font><font color="#007700">,</font><font color="#0000BB">$node</font><font color="#007700">,</font><font color="#DD0000">"\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />}<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This script will display: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >/a/b/c: text /a/b/c: stuff b/c: text b/c: stuff</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Notice that the two results are equal. </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></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-children.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-import-dom.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >simplexml_element->children</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_import_dom</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >