this is the code I am using include 'SimpleDOM.php';

$xml = simpledom_load_file("data.xml"); $dateformat = "D j M, g:ia";

foreach($xml->sortedXPath('CatchUp[ProgrammeName="MTV"]', 'TransmissionDate') as $i => $item) { if ($i == 4) { // I assume you only want the first 4 break; } print "<p>Programme Name:<strong> " . $item->ProgrammeName. "</strong></p>"; print "<p>Date Shown:<strong> " . date($dateformat, strtotime($item->TransmissionDate)). "</strong></p>"; print "<p>Description:<strong> " . trunc($item->ShortSynopsis,30, " ")."</strong></p>"; print "<p><a href='". $item->VideoID. "'>". $item->VideoID."</a></p>"; } how change the sortXpath mechnanism to sort decsending rather than ascending, so the newest transmission dates should show the first 4.

instead I get the first 4 oldest transmission dates shown first.

Not sure if this is a bug

When posting issues, please reduce the code to a minimum and ensure it can be run "as-this." For instance, PHP doesn't have a trunc() function, nor is it relevant to sorting, so this part should be left out.

sortedXPath() accepts the same arguments as PHP's own [http://docs.php.net/manual/ en/function.array-multisort.php array_multisort()] You can sort by descending value with SORT_DESC {{{ $xml->sortedXPath('CatchUp[ProgrammeName="MTV"]', 'TransmissionDate', SORT_DESC) }}}