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[David Mintz]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:

>
> I used it today when I had to use SimpleXML / XPath to extract an
> attribute from a specific part of an XML file:
>
> list($version) = simplexml_load_string($xml)->xpath('/foo[@bar = "baz"]/@version');
>
> The xpath() method returns an array of items, but I know I'm only
> interested in the first (and only) one.

Indeed, is there any other one-liner in PHP to snag just the 1st element
of something that returns an array?

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David Mintz
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