Take the 2-minute tour ×  In an XML document, I have elements
which share the same name, but the value of an attribute defines
what type of data it is, and I want to select all of those
elements which have a certain value from the document. Do I need
to use XPath (and if so, could you suggest the right syntax) or
is there a more elegant solution?  Here's some example XML:
<data type="me">myname</data>   <data type="you">yourname</data>
<data type="me">myothername</data>  And I want to select the
contents of all <data> tags children of <object> who's type is
me.  PS - I'm trying to interface with the Netflix API using PHP
- this shouldn't matter for my question, but if you want to
suggest a good/better way to do so, I'm all ears.  share|improve
this question X-Ref: Implementing condition in XPath –  hakre
Jul 9 '13 at 9:43 add comment  2 Answers  up vote 16 down vote
accepted  Try this XPath:    $myDataObjects =
$simplexml->xpath('/object/data[@type="me"]');  And if object is
not the root of your document