Being an experienced ASP developer I was wondering how to replace textual content of a node (with msxml this is simply acheived by setting the 'text' property of a node). Out of frustration I started to play around with SimpleXml but I could not get it to work in combination with xPath.
I took me a lot of time to find out so I hope this helps others:
function replaceNodeText($objXml, $objNode, $strNewContent){
/*
This function replaces a node's string content with strNewContent
*/
$objNodeListNested = &$objNode->childNodes;
foreach ( $objNodeListNested as $objNodeNested ){
if ($objNodeNested->nodeType == XML_TEXT_NODE)$objNode->removeChild ($objNodeNested);
}
$objNode->appendChild($objXml->createTextNode($strNewContent));
}
$objXml= new DOMDocument();
$objXml->loadXML('<root><node id="1">bla</note></root>');
$objXpath = new domxpath($objXml);
$strXpath="/root/node[@id='1']";
$objNodeList = $objXpath ->query($strXpath);
foreach ($objNodeList as $objNode){
//pass the node by reference
replaceNodeText($objXml, &$objNode, $strImportedValue);
}
