Find if node has siblings using simplexml

Question

I am try to find if a certain node has siblings, and if it does, I would like to know what those siblings are.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

In order to select a node's siblings, you have to use the corresponding XPath axe. Here is how to select all a node's siblings (ignoring the node itself)

$siblings = $node->xpath('preceding-sibling::* | following-sibling::*');

That's all you have to do.