How to remove attributes using PHP DOMDocument?

Question

With this piece of XML: ``` ``` I have to get rid of all the attributes within the image tags. So, I've done this: ``` XML; $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadXML($article); $dom_article = $doc->documentElement; $entities = $dom_article->getElementsByTagName("entities"); foreach($entities->item(0)->childNodes as $child){ // get the image tags foreach($child->attributes as $att){ // get the attributes $child->removeAttributeNode($att); //remove the attribute } } ?> ``` Somehow when I try to remove an from attribute within the foreach block, it looks like the internal pointer gets lost and it doesn't delete both the attributes. Is there another way of doing that? Thanks in advance.

Accepted Answer

Change the inner `foreach` loop to:

```
while ($child->hasAttributes())
  $child->removeAttributeNode($child->attributes->item(0));
```

Or back to front deletion:

```
if ($child->hasAttributes()) { 
  for ($i = $child->attributes->length - 1; $i >= 0; --$i)
    $child->removeAttributeNode($child->attributes->item($i));
}
```

Or making a copy of the attribute list:

```
if ($child->hasAttributes()) {
  foreach (iterator_to_array($child->attributes) as $attr)
    $child->removeAttributeNode($attr);
}
```

Any of those will work.

How to remove attributes using PHP DOMDocument?

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