Iterate over elements using the XMLReader class

get next element XMLReader

$xmlReader = new XMLReader();
   $xmlReader->open(dirname(__FILE__) . self::XML_FILE_PATH);
    
while ($element = $this->getNextElementFromXML($xmlReader, "Rubrique")) {
        }
   
   
   
   /**
     * return an array of the next element specified
     * @param $xml
     * @return bool
     */
    private function getNextElementFromXML($xml, $element)
    {
        while ($xml->read()) {
            switch ($xml->nodeType) {
                case($xml::ELEMENT):
                    $name = $xml->name;
                    $value = $xml->value;
                    if ($xml->localName == $element) {
                        $outerXml = $xml->readOuterXML();
                        $xmlString = simplexml_load_string($outerXml);
                        $array = simpleXMLToArray($xmlString);
                        $xml->next();
                        return $array;
                    }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }