What are the potential methods for querying or reading variables like "transactionID" from a response XML in PHP?

When working with response XML in PHP, you can use the SimpleXML extension to easily query and read variables like "transactionID". Simply load the XML response into a SimpleXMLElement object and then access the desired variables using object notation. For example, if the transactionID is nested within a <transaction> tag, you can access it like $xml->transaction->transactionID. 

// Load the XML response into a SimpleXMLElement object
$response = &#039;&lt;response&gt;&lt;transaction&gt;&lt;transactionID&gt;12345&lt;/transactionID&gt;&lt;/transaction&gt;&lt;/response&gt;&#039;;
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($response);

// Access the transactionID variable
$transactionID = $xml-&gt;transaction-&gt;transactionID;
echo $transactionID; // Output: 12345

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XML parsing PHP SimpleXMLElement XPath querying variables

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