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03/24/2008
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DOMElement Function getAttribute
PHP Version: (No version information might be only in CVS. I have
used this function in PHP5)
DOM: W3C DOM Level 1
Description
This function returns the value of the
attribute associated with the element.
Usage:
String DOMElement->getAttribute (
string name)
Returns the value
of the attribute with name name for the current node. If no attribute
with given name is found, an empty string is returned.
PHP Code:
<?php
$xmlstr = <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<employee>
<employeename
id="myId">test</employeename>
<employeeaddress>test123</employeeaddress>
<SSN>12343456</SSN>
<company>XYZ
Corporation</company>
</employee>
XML;
$dom = new domDocument;
//load the XML string into the DOM
$dom->loadXML($xmlstr);
//retrieve yje first element with name employeename
