SimpleXML get element content based on attribute value [duplicate]

Answer 1

Well, I suspect the solution will be XPATH...

If you're trying to get the title of a book by the id, you'd use the query:

$query = '//DocSum/Id[contains(., "21232919")]';

If you're trying to search for the title of a book:

$query = '//DocSum/Item[@Name="Title" AND contains(., "Metformin")]';

Then just run it:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

$results = $xml->xpath($query);
foreach ($results as $titleElement) {
    $book = simplexml_import_dom(dom_import_simplexml($titleElement)->parentNode);
    // Handle the book here
}

I'm converting back and forth between simplexml and domdocument since that appears to be the only documented way of traversing up the tree...

Answer 2

This XPath query on the SimpleXML object will return all DocSum nodes that have an Item child with value "Author" in the Name attribute and value "Olivera GC" in the text node:

$nodes = $xml->xpath('//DocSum[Item[@Name="Author" and .="Oliveira GC"]]');
$book = $nodes[0];
print_r($book);