PHP dom_domdocument_getelementsbytagnamens function

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DOMDocument->getElementsByTagNameNS()

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

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

The namespace URI of the elements to match on.
The special value * matches all namespaces.

The local name of the elements to match on.
The special value * matches all local names.

A new DOMNodeList object containing all the matched
elements.

Example 1. Get all the XInclude elements

 
$xml = <<<EOD
<?xml version="1.0"

<chapter xmlns:xi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude”>
<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: