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# SimpleXMLElement->xpath()

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

SimpleXMLElement->xpath() -- Runs XPath query on XML data

## Descrição

class SimpleXMLElement {
array xpath ( string path )
}

The `xpath` method searches the SimpleXML node for children matching the XPath `path`.

## Parâmetros

`path`

  An XPath path

## Valores de retornado

Always returns an array of SimpleXMLElement objects.

## Exemplos

Exemplo 1. Xpath
`<?php $string = <<<XML <a> <b> <c>text</c> <c>stuff</c> </b> <d> <c>code</c> </d> </a> XML; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($string); /* Search for <a><b><c> */ $result = $xml->xpath('/a/b/c'); while(list( , $node) = each($result)) { echo '/a/b/c: ',$node,"\n"; } /* Relative paths also work... */ $result = $xml->xpath('b/c'); while(list( , $node) = each($result)) { echo 'b/c: ',$node,"\n"; } ?>`
O exemplo acima irá imprimir:
    /a/b/c: text
    /a/b/c: stuff
    b/c: text
    b/c: stuff
Notice that the two results are equal.

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