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DOMDocument::getElementsByTagNameNS

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

DOMDocument::getElementsByTagNameNS Searches for all elements with given tag name in specified namespace


Description

public DOMDocument::getElementsByTagNameNS ( string $namespaceURI , string $localName ) : DOMNodeList

Returns a DOMNodeList of all elements with a given local name and a namespace URI.


Parameters

namespaceURI
The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The special value * matches all namespaces.
localName
The local name of the elements to match on. The special value * matches all local names.


Return Values

A new DOMNodeList object containing all the matched elements.


Examples

Example #1 Get all the XInclude elements

<?php$xml = <<<EOD<?xml version="1.0" ?><chapter xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude%22><title>Books of the other guy..</title><para> <xi:include href="book.xml">  <xi:fallback>   <error>xinclude: book.xml not found</error>  </xi:fallback> </xi:include> <include>  This is another namespace </include></para></chapter>EOD;$dom = new DOMDocument;// load the XML string defined above$dom->loadXML($xml);foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagNameNS('http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude', '*') as $element) {    echo 'local name: ', $element->localName, ', prefix: ', $element->prefix, "\n";}?>

The above example will output:


local name: include, prefix: xi
local name: fallback, prefix: xi

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