PHP：获取没有父级的xml子级

Question

I load XML file by simplexml_load_file

XML :

<list>
   <top>
      <test>
         <id>1</id>
      </test>
      <test>
         <id>2</id>
      </test>
      <test>
         <id>3</id>
      </test>
   </top>
   <test>
       <id>4</id>
   </test>
</list>

I want get all TEST tag by one foreach

I dont use top parent for get test chilren

How i can ?

Answer 1

You want all TEST elements which are anywhere in XML? In that case you can use xpath somelike this

$xml = simplexml_load_file('xml.xml'); 
$testElements = $xml->xpath('//*/test'); // return array of TEST elements