Re: Regular Expression Problem

# jochem@iamjochem.com / 2007-01-24 23:55:27 +0100: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > Are you doing this to learn regular expressions or are you actually > > trying to do work? Because you're going the wrong way. > > It's XML, why do you treat it as text? > > not everyone shares that sentiment. in terms of lowest common denominator > XML is also a string. then there is the question of whether it's actually > marked as XML, whether there is valid DTD and whether the XML itself validates > against the DTD - if any of the answers is 'no' then your looking at tag soup. as long as it's wellformed he can use it for what it is: a serialized composite structure, like the result of serialize($aTreeOfObjects). You can use preg_match() to extract a subset of the tree, but why bother if you have unserialize($aTreeOfObjects)->getElementById("foo")? -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991