(PHP 5, PHP 7)
Searches for all elements with given local tag name
public DOMNodeList DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName ( string $name )
This function returns a new instance of class DOMNodeList containing all the elements with a given local tag name.
Parameters:
name
The local name (without namespace) of the tag to match on. The special value * matches all tags.
Returns:
A new DOMNodeList object containing all the matched elements.
Examples:
Basic Usage Example
<?php $xml = <<< XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <books> <book>Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture</book> <book>Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Software Design</book> <book>Clean Code</book> </books> XML; $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->loadXML($xml); $books = $dom->getElementsByTagName('book'); foreach ($books as $book) { echo $book->nodeValue, PHP_EOL; } ?>
The above example will output:
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Software Design Clean Code
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