Re: Parsing XML

Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 10:15 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: >> Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >> > Do any of you have a copy of this extension, or failing that, a >> > suggestion of how I can parse XML files without having to install >> > anything on the remote server, as I do not have that level off >> > access to it. >> >> Parsing XML is best done with XSL - if that's out of the question, >> you're in for a difficult time. >> >> >> /Per Jessen, Zürich >> >> > XSL will only allow me to convert it into a different document format, > which is not what I want as I need to keep a local copy of information > in a database for searching and sorting purposes. Nathans class allows > me to have the entire document put into an array tree, which is fine > for what I need so far. That's cool, but XSL is still the more appropriate tool IMO. It does exactly what you need - it parses and validates the XML document, allows you to extract the bits you need and in virtually any format you need - which could be a text document with SQL statements for piping to mysql. /Per Jessen, Zürich