Re: XML parsing without the PHP4 XML functions

I haven't done this in PHP as PHP comes w/ XML support but times past when I needed a fast way to parse something like that and knew the format would be simple I'd usually do something like make a function that knows all the possible splits w/in a layer (ie items are w/in the faq layer if they can occur inside faq tags) and then just recursively explode the string parts based on all know tags for that layer and build a nested array or prehaps nested objects. That is probably the simplist way if you don't want to mess w/ real parsing. If you have Unix access you might see if you can use Perl or a helper app to parse it into an easier to work w/ format. Stefen Lars wrote:

Hello all I have recently been assigned the task of parsing an xml file and format the contents of the file in HTML. The xml file lies on another server. Our web space provider does not provide the XML functions (nor is he willing to install them) :-gr. I am sure that I am not the only who has come across this problem. Would someone have already created a few functions to parse xml that they are willing to share? I have the following structure to deal with: <faq> <item> <product>ProductName</product> <question>Why does it not work</question> <answer>Because it is not turned on<answer> <item> </faq> There are whole load of <item>s in the file. I then want to display the contents a bit like this: echo $product; echo $question; etc (of course with some HTML formatting, like a bulleted list). Any help would be really VERY appreciated! Thanks S _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.