php xpath iterating through inner nodes, get values based on specific attributes - php

Question

I have an XML document in following structure.
<rows pos="0" rec_count="200">
<row id="109">
<cell style="" fieldName="pid">104</cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="title">Mr.</cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="name">Vladimir</cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="projectcode">879</cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="clientstatus">1000000000</cell>
</row>
<row id="111">
<cell style="" fieldName="pid">105</cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="title">Mr.</cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="name">Barak</cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="projectcode">789/cell>
<cell style="" fieldName="clientstatus">1000000000</cell>
</row>
</rows>
Now I need to get value of each row, to an array, which each row element is an associative array where fieldName of above becomes key, element value is node value.
How can I do accomplish this with XPath?
I tried several methods; none worked for me yet.
Thanks #JeffreyBosboom , #Makyen for your reply.
The most successfull I came is as follows.
foreach ($xml->xpath('//row') as $node) {
foreach($node->cell as $cell) {
var_dump((string)$cell[0]);
}
}
With it I can get the node value. But I need to get the fieldName attribute extracted in each iteration

Answer 1

Do you mean something like this:
$arr = array();
$s = simplexml_load_string($xml);
//First we search all the <cell> nodes within <row> nodes
foreach($s->xpath("//row/cell") as $node)
{
//For all found nodes we retrieve its ID from ancestor (<row>)
//attribute named id
$id = $node->xpath("../#id");
$id = (int)$id[0];
if(!isset($arr[$id]))
{
$arr[$id] = array();
}
//Then we iterate through all attributes of found <cell> nodes
//to find the attribute named fieldName
foreach($node->attributes() as $key=>$att)
{
if($key=='fieldName')
{
$arr[$id][(string)$att] = (string)$node;
}
}
}
//In $arr array there will be desired output
echo "<pre>";
print_r($arr);
echo "</pre>";
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