Retrieve all of the first children of an xml_node with a specific tag name

This example uses the [xml_node->extract] method to retrieve the <date> elements from an xml_node. Note that the method ignores the <date> element in the <data> node.

Code

var(aMonth = xml('<month>
    <data>
        <name>March</name>
        <date type="lastDay">31</date>
    </data>
    <date>4</date>
    <date>11</date>
    <date>16</date>
    <date>23</date>
    <date>30</date>
</month>') )

var ( myDates = $aMonth->extract('date'))
$myDates

Result

staticarray(<date>4</date>, <date>11</date>, <date>16</date>, <date>23</date>, <date>30</date>)