Return the value of an attribute of an XML element

Use the [xml_element->getattribute] method.

This example shows haw to return the values of the day and weekday attributes of an xml_element called "vacation".

Code

var(vacationDays = xml('<vacation day="23" weekday="Friday"><employee>Sean</employee></vacation>') )

'Day is '+$vacationDays->getattribute('day')+'\n'
'Weekday is '+$vacationDays->getattribute('weekday')

Result

Day is 23
Weekday is Friday