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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<refentry xml:id="domxpath.query" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<refnamediv>
<refname>DOMXPath::query</refname>
<refpurpose>
Evaluates the given XPath expression
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>DOMNodeList</type><methodname>DOMXPath::query</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>expression</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>DOMNode</type><parameter>contextnode</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Executes the given XPath <parameter>expression</parameter>.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>expression</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The XPath expression to execute.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>contextnode</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The optional <parameter>contextnode</parameter> can be specified for
doing relative XPath queries. By default, the queries are relative to
the root element.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
Returns a <classname>DOMNodeList</classname> containing all nodes matching
the given XPath <parameter>expression</parameter>. Any expression which do
not return nodes will return an empty <classname>DOMNodeList</classname>.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title>Getting all the english books</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument;
// We don't want to bother with white spaces
$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$doc->Load('book.xml');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
// We starts from the root element
$query = '//book/chapter/para/informaltable/tgroup/tbody/row/entry[. = "en"]';
$entries = $xpath->query($query);
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
echo "Found {$entry->previousSibling->previousSibling->nodeValue}," .
" by {$entry->previousSibling->nodeValue}\n";
}
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
&example.outputs;
<screen>
<![CDATA[
Found The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Found The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
]]>
</screen>
<para>
We can also use the <parameter>contextnode</parameter> parameter to shorten
our expression:
</para>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$doc->load('book.xml');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$tbody = $doc->getElementsByTagName('tbody')->item(0);
// our query is relative to the tbody node
$query = 'row/entry[. = "en"]';
$entries = $xpath->query($query, $tbody);
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
echo "Found {$entry->previousSibling->previousSibling->nodeValue}," .
" by {$entry->previousSibling->nodeValue}\n";
}
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><methodname>DOMXPath::evaluate</methodname></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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