Re: Re: XML parser for PHP5

From: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:19:25 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: XML parser for PHP5
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> Matthew Sims wrote: > >> Anyone know any good XML parsers that work with PHP5? Most of what I can >> find on freshmeat are still using PHP4 classes and Google isn't turning >> up >> much either. > > What do you want to do? This parses xml pretty well: > > <?php > $parsed = simplexml_load_file('filename.xml'); > ?> > > as does this > > <?php > $dom = new DOMDocument; > $dom->load('filename.xml'); > ?> > > The first one is brilliant for reading xml whose structure you know, the > second is better for xml whose structure you wish to manipulate or > transform. > > best, it's built into PHP. If you want a system that can be easily > serialized and unserialized as an object (as in sessions), you're > probably best off using XML_Serializer from PEAR, as neither simplexml > nor DOM retains any useful information when serialized and unserialized. > > Greg > My fault, I should have been more specific. An RSS reader. :) I was using xmlParser-0.3 and feedParser-0.5 to display news sites. Since I've converted to PHP5, they no longer work for me. -- --Matthew Sims --<http://killermookie.org>

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