Adding Attributes to all XML Nodes

[cesarcesar]

Howdy,

I have an PHP page that edits XML files. I want ADD a new *id* attribute to all nodes on the page that do not have it all ready. Then i want to delete all of the values of *id* and set them as an incremental 1-x values down the page.

This is the current code i am using to edit specific nodes. Im trying to use DOM, but it doesn't have to be. I just need it to work.

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<?php

$content = $_POST['content'];

$id = $_POST['id'];

$node = $_POST['node'];

$explode = explode("_",$node);

 

$dom=new DOMDocument();

$dom->load('sample.xml');

$dom->formatOutput = true;

//echo $dom->saveXML(); // show before file

$allnodes = $dom->getElementsByTagName($explode[0]);

foreach ($allnodes as $nodes) {

    if ($nodes->nodeName==$explode[0] and $nodes->getAttribute('id')==$id) { //

        $nodes->setAttribute($explode[1],$content);

    }

}

$dom->save('sample.xml');

?>
 

This is the XML file im working with. **NOTE** the missing *id* attributes of the 2nd *child01* node.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<parent option01="other info" option02="other info" id="1">

    <child01 option01="child01 option01" option02="child01 option02" id="2">

        <child02 option01="child02 option01" option02="child02 option02" id="3">

            <text option01="text option01" option02="text option02" id="4">

                <![CDATA[<b>Ma quande lingues coalesce</b>]]>

            </text>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02" id="5">image 1</image>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02" id="6">image 2</image>

        </child02>

        <child02 option01="child02 option01" option02="child02 option02" id="7">

            <text option01="text option01" option02="text option02" id="8">

                <![CDATA[Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.]]>

            </text>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02" id="9">image 1</image>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02" id="10">image 2</image>

        </child02>

    </child01>

    <child01 option01="child01 option01" option02="child01 option02">

        <child02 option01="child02 option01" option02="child02 option02">

            <text option01="text option01" option02="text option02">

                <![CDATA[Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic escorol.]]>

            </text>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02">image 1</image>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02">image 2</image>

        </child02>

        <child02 option01="child02 option01" option02="child02 option02">

            <text option01="text option01" option02="text option02">

                <![CDATA[Li Europan lingues es membres del sam familie.]]>

            </text>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02">image 1</image>

            <image option01="Li Europan lingues 01" option02="Li Europan lingues 02">image 2</image>

        </child02>

    </child01>

</parent>
 

[Dan]

I am not sure what the problem is..
You could use XSLT, but once you have parsed the content of the XML in PHP it should be much easy to process the attribute values. I see from your sample that there is a nice set of XML functions available in PHP.

[cesarcesar]

Yes PHP has nice XML handling. What i have posted works... i now want to add the numbering of the nodes. Any ideas on this?

[KermitTensmeyer]

You know about an Identity Transformation right?

then for each element, have it test for an existing ID and strip it out.
now add to each target element a new attribute called id with the specified value.

for example:

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<xsl:template match="parent|child01|child02|child03">

<xsl:copy select=".">

  <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="...assign new value.."/>

  </xsl:attribute>

</xsl:copy>

</xsl:template>

hope this helps Kermit Tensmeyer