Re: Call-time pass-by-reference deprecation errors

[Peter R. <php...@pe...>]

On Friday 07 Dec 2001 4:22 pm, you wrote:
>
> also, a short example php file showing basic php.xpath usage would be
> extremely helpful. the class documentation is nice, but not so helpful
> to a beginning user who doesn't necessarily know in advance what
> methods might be useful. i downloaded the pxpxmldb source to have
> something else to look at, but just a simple "here's a new xpath
> object, here's how we select a node and print it out, done." would go a
> long way. i'll try and write one and post it, maybe that could also be
> bundled with the download as a resource for new users.

I had much the same thoughts myself. Here's a simple sample I wrote, first 
evaluating the first occurrence, then doing the same thing using a specific 
attribute. You can remove the comment on the print_r to see what 
evaluate/match creates (easier to read as plain text rather than html).