Re: easy and simple way to read xml into array

So what do I need hearing it for ? I just answered the guy (what he needed was help, not punches & slaps from wiseguys). "Raditha Dissanayake" <jabber@raditha.com> wrote in message news:3FBB6F11.6060203@raditha.com... > > >Well, I've, and I also have to say that the XML-support in PHP lacks > >any usability… > > > I am sorry to say this but the above comments indicates a lack of > understanding about xml, xml parsing and PHP. The php xml parser is > based on expat. expat was written by james clark a person who worked on > some of the XML specs. > > > > >2 pages code later I still cannot get it to work, and the manual is > >pretty thin on this chapter... > > > That's because the manual assumes you have the background on xml, maybe > you might want to head off to w3schools etc to get this. Have you looked > at the articles on phpbuilder on xml parsing with php? > > >But what seems to happen is that the character data handler is called > >to randomly number of times, and if I output the current element every > >time it gets called I get the following output for the xml above: > > > according to the specs the character data handler may be called more > than once for each start element. Wheter you use c, php, java c++ or perl. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Raditha Dissanayake. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ | > http://www.raditha.com/megaupload > Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with | Mega Upload - PHP file uploader > Graphical User Inteface. Just 150 KB | with progress bar.