Read XML PHP DOM with XPATH - php

Question

I have a question.
I have the xml
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=new+york&sensor=true
I want to read from example
GeocodeResponse/result/geometry/location/lat
and
GeocodeResponse/result/geometry/location/lng
maybe using XPATH and this is what i have so far ...
<?php
$Address = "new+york";
$Query = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=".$Address."&sensor=true";
$XmlResponse = file_get_contents($Query);
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($XmlResponse);
$root = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "GeocodeResponse" );
foreach( $root as $val )
{
$hrefs = $val->getElementsByTagName( "status" );
$status = $hrefs->item(0)->nodeValue;
foreach( $hrefs as $val2 )
{
$hrefs2 = $val2->getElementsByTagName( "type" );
$type = $hrefs2->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo "Type is: $type <br>";
}
echo "Status is: $status <br>";
}
?>
Can i have some advices?
maybe i can use
$xpath = new DOMXPath($xml);
$hrefs = $xpath->evaluate("/page");
UPDATE!!
I have managed to get the result by this ...
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$res = $xpath->evaluate('//GeocodeResponse/result/geometry');
$root = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "location" );
foreach( $root as $val )
{
$hrefs = $val->getElementsByTagName( "lat" );
$status = $hrefs->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo "Status is: $status <br>";
}
but i want something without foreach like
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$res = $xpath->evaluate('//GeocodeResponse/result/geometry');
$hrefs = $val->getElementsByTagName( "lat" );
$status = $hrefs->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo "Status is: $status <br>";
Is this possible?

Answer 1

You may want to switch to JSON that is much easier to parse:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=new+york&sensor=true
$json = file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=new+york&sensor=true');
$geocodeResponse = json_decode($json, true);
foreach($geocodeResponse['results'] as $result){
echo $result['geometry']['location']['lat'].', '.$result['geometry']['location']['lng'] .'<br>';
}