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Interface for the PHP XML Pull parser XMLReader that adds super-simplified xpath functionality. This is ideal for reading huge xml files without the memory costs of other xml libraries (eg SImpleXMLElement).

Example

source code: https://github.com/SuRaMoN/simplexmlreader/blob/master/examples/simple-example.php

$xml = SimpleXmlReader::openFromString('  <root>  <animal type="cat">  <hastail>yes</hastail>  </animal>  <animal type="dog">  <hastail>yes</hastail>  </animal>  <animal type="kakariki">  <hastail>no</hastail>  </animal>  </root> '); foreach($xml->path('root/animal') as $animal) { // $animal is of type SimpleXMLElelent // only the current iterated $animal is in memory, so huge xml files can be read, without much memory consumption echo "A {$animal->attributes()->type} has a tail? {$animal->hastail}!\n"; }