Re: How to obtain unique XML Elements

Hello, "David Pratt" <fairwinds@shaw.ca> wrote: > Anyone have a simple technique for obtaining a unique list of elements from > an XML file? > > Am looking for something that will identify the first opening tag ie > <thistag> and the single tag <anothertag/> so that I get an array of tags > that I can print out. Having a bit of trouble with regex to get something > to work. > > Basic idea I had is to open file, read through each line with regex, add > matches to array, and then do unique elements of array and write to another > file. > > Is there a better way? Yes. Have you checked the manual? :) http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php - E