Re: Easy question about XML parsing

Brian Dunning wrote: > I've been going through a number of easy XML parsing examples on the > web, and they all have one thing in common: the XML is in a file, which > they read in 4K chunks and parse. > > My application will be retrieving the XML from a web service, presumably > like $xml = file_get_contents($url). I was assuming that I could parse > the XML in memory using that $xml variable, but since NONE of the > examples I've seen do this, I was wondering if it's a requirement that > the XML be in a local file, and needing to do the 4K chunk thing. > > - Brian Nope, if the stream will open and put data into $xml then you're fine. It's not a requirement that the XML file is on the disk, just that it's available to memory. -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins

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