SimpleXML

SimpleXML is a PHP extension that allows users to easily¹² manipulate/use XML data. It was introduced in PHP 5 as an object oriented approach to the XML DOM providing an object that can be processed with normal property selectors and array iterators.³⁴ It represents an easy way of getting an element's attributes and textual content if you know the XML document's structure or layout.⁵

Compared to DOM or the Expat parser, SimpleXML takes a fewer lines of code to read text data from an element.⁶⁷

• addAttribute()⁸
• addChild()
• asXML()
• attributes()
• children()
• __construct()
• getDocNamespaces()
• getName()
• getNamespaces()
• registerXPathNamespace()
• xpath()
• simplexml_import_dom
• simplexml_load_file
• simplexml_load_string

It is possible to suppress all XML errors when loading the document and then iterate over the errors.⁹