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Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

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Demonstrates how to deal with XML where child elements may have identical tags. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Xml;

// This example will get the phoneNumber's and groupMembershihpInfo's from the following XML:

/*
 * <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
 * <someEntries>
 *     <entry>
 *         <id>123</id>
 *         <updated>2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</updated>
 *         <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</app:edited>
 *         <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
 *         <title>George Costanza</title>
 *          <gd:name>
 *             <gd:fullName>George Costanza</gd:fullName>
 *             <gd:givenName>George</gd:givenName>
 *             <gd:familyName>Costanza</gd:familyName>
 *         </gd:name>
 *         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home">(555) 123-4567</gd:phoneNumber>
 *         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile">(555) 444-8877</gd:phoneNumber>
 *         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work">(555) 678-1111</gd:phoneNumber>
 *         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/123"/>
 *         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/456"/>
 *     </entry>
 * </someEntries>
 *
 */

$xml = new Xml();

$xml->LoadXmlFile('qa_data/xml/georgeCostanza.xml');

$numPhoneNumbers = $xml->NumChildrenHavingTag('entry|*:phoneNumber');
$i = 0;
while ($i < $numPhoneNumbers) {
    $xPhoneNumber = $xml->GetNthChildWithTag('entry|*:phoneNumber', $i);
    echo $xPhoneNumber->Content, "\n";

    $i = $i + 1;
}

echo "----\n";

$numGroupMemberships = $xml->NumChildrenHavingTag('entry|*:groupMembershipInfo');
$i = 0;
while ($i < $numGroupMemberships) {
    $xMembership = $xml->GetNthChildWithTag('entry|*:groupMembershipInfo', $i);
    echo $xMembership->GetAttrValue('href'), "\n";

    $i = $i + 1;
}