how to remove an xml node using php?

[sakthiganapathy]

this is my php code:

$dir=getcwd();
$xmlDoc=$dir."/xml1.xml";

$xdoc = new DOMDocument;
$xdoc->validateOnPars e = true;
$xdoc->Load($xmlDoc );

$book = $xdoc->documentElemen t;

$xp = new DomXPath($xdoc) ;

$res = $xp->query("//*[@id = '".$id."']");
//$chapter = $xp->getElementsByT agName('club')->item(0);
$oldchapter = $book->removeChild($r es->item(0));
echo $test = $xdoc->save($xmlDoc );

i want to use query function also...

plz help me...

[jkmyoung]

What node are you trying to remove? What does your source xml look like? Why isn't it working as it is?