xml update or delete

[veledrom]

I return result like this.

$xmlDoc=simplexml_load_file("myXML.xml");
$search = $xmlDoc->xpath("/customer[@id='$ID']");
foreach ($search as $key => $customer) {
	echo $id = $customer["id"];
}

Is there any chance to DELETE or UPDATE above particular record without creating whole XML file again like we do in database?

Thanks

[pritaeas]

Maybe this will help:
http://php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples.php

[fpmurphy]

The short answer is no. You can easily delete the "record" in memory but you will need to write out the entire file to disk if you want to permanantly delete the record.