Evaluate XPath 2.0 in PHP

Question

I am currently working on a project written in PHP and want to evaluate XPath expression on XML files. Since the files are a quite complex, my XPath contains expressions like for...in...return-loops or other features introduced with XPath 2. Unfortunately PHP's DOMXPath class supports only XPath 1.0, and I didn't find any XPath 2.0 evaluator for PHP. Has anybody faced the same problem and found a solution?

Answer 1

Saxon/C (currently in beta) can be called from PHP. It's open source, covered under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Linux, Windows and Mac OS X are supported.

Alternatively, in lieu of support for XPath 2.0 you could just re-write your XPaths to use XPath 1.0 proper and cover iteration etc outside of XPath in PHP itself.