Re: remove SimpleXML nodes

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>> So I want to do...
>> 
>> $xmlDatabase = new SimpleXMLElement($myXML);
>> foreach ($xmlDatabase as $oneTable)
>> {
>>    if ($oneTable['name'] == 'two')
>>    {
>>       ///  ---- HERE I WANT TO DELETE THE $oneTable NODE
>>       unset($oneTable);   // <-- and this doesn't work...
>>    }
>> }
> 
> I tried to do the same a while back and could not figure it out. I think
> that SimpleXML is just that - simple. You should rather try using DOMXML
> functions, or as I did, roll an XML parser and do it like that.

Why can't you just recreate the XML and skip the node you don't want to
include?  So something like below:

foreach ($xmlDatabase as $oneTable)
{
    // skip node you don't want in your final xml output
    if ($oneTable['name'] != 'two')
    {
        ....
    }
}

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