It seems there's no way to do this. You can unset certain things in
simpleXML objects, but it's really strange non-standard behaviour. If I
have this for an XML document:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<document>
<test>foo</test>
<test>bar</test>
<test>baz</test>
</document>
XML;
and I run that through simplexml into $xml, then doing unset($xml->test)
and then exporting again yields this:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<document>
</document>
Also, if I echo $xml->test[1], I get "bar". But I can't unset anything
like that. $xml->test says it's an array through var dumps, but it
doesn't seem to be a real array, only a fake array.
I'm tempted to say it can't be done. One thing you might try is, to do
the unset, export to DOM using dom_import_simplexml(), use DOM to unset
the thing, and then use simplexml_import_dom(). Who knows how slow
that'd be, though.
Regards, Adam.
Javier Ruiz wrote:
Thanks a lot to all :)
Using DOM I can do what I need. Anyway I was trying the proposed solutions
with SimpleXML but none of them worked for me :(
I tried splitting $key and $value in the foreach command, but when I dump
the xml (with the asXML function) I still have the nodes that I supposed to
delete... And the same using references, cause I think using unset with
referenced variable names doesn't delete the referenced var, it just
deletes
the link to the referenced var...
Concretely I tried:
TEST ONE:
foreach ($xmlDatabase as $key => $oneTable) if ($oneTable['name'] == 'one')
unset($xmlDatabase[$key]);
$sourceXML = $xmlDatabase->asXML(); // <----- node <table name='one'> is
still there
TEST TWO
foreach ($xmlDatabase as $key => &$oneTable) if ($oneTable['name'] ==
'one')
unset($oneTable);
$sourceXML = $xmlDatabase->asXML(); // <----- node <table name='one'> is
still there
If there's no luck with xml I will use of course DOM for this, but I'm
really curious now :P
Again, thanks a lot for the help.
Javi Ruiz.
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