Re: php newbie question with xml files

Thanks these pointers have helped alot. "Jared Sherman" <jaredsherman@cox.net> wrote in message news:20050503055906.1254.qmail@lists.php.net... >I have an xml document storing some data I need. What I want to do is this: > 1. Scan to the end of the file. > 2. Find the closing tag. > 3. Insert a new entry in before the closing tag. > > I've tried: > 1. Creating new files and renaming them to be the original. > 2. Writing the file to a dummy file and insert my lines part way through > then finish the last tag. > > My problem is I'm looking for a </endtag> and it comes up as endtag. Is > there anyway to force PHP to read the .xml file as a text file so it wont > strip off the xml tag information? > > I've used fopen with fgets and fwrite, and file with fwrite > > Jared Sherman > Totally lost newbie