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Set textContent of an element with PHP SimpleXMLElement

PHP SimpleXMLElement can access XML and also give me the text content of an element with the implicit string cast conversion. But I see no way to change that text content. Is it possible?

I have this XML:

<root>
    <element>text</element>
</root>

The text in the element can be accessed like this:

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlStr);
$element = $xml->xpath('/root/element');
echo $element;

But what I also need is setting the text so that the XML looks like that:

<root>
    <element>new text</element>
</root>

$element = 'new text';

This obviously doesn’t work. But I don’t even know what to try. It’s not documented and I couldn’t find anything on the web. A class that makes me search so much for simple usage can’t be "simple".

The JavaScript equivalent would be:

element.textContent = "new text";
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  1. 0

    This should do the trick:

       $xml = new SimpleXMLElement("<root><element>text</element></root>");
   $element = $xml->xpath('/root/element');
   $element[0][0] = "new text";
   echo $xml->asXML();
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  2. 0

    SimpleXML is limited.

    PHP supports DOM and Xpath. Xpath is actually a little easier to use – compared to the browser. DOMXpath::evaluate() returns a list of nodes or a scalar value depending on the expression.

    $xml = '<root><element>text</element></root>';

$document = new DOMDocument();
$document->loadXML($xml);
$xpath = new DOMXpath();

// fetch and iterate nodes
foreach ($xpath->evaluate('(/root/element)[1]') as $element) {
    // modify node
    $element->textContent = "new text";
}

echo $document->saveXML();
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