Re: XML inside a file

Chris, This sounds very interesting; a concrete example would benefit many of us. Is there some pared-down version of the PHP script you wrote that you can make available as a teaching model? Thanks and Cheerio, Rick Rodgers > From: "Chris Adams" <chris@digitaria.com> > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:24:39 -0700 > Organization: Digitaria LLC > Subject: Re: [PHP] XML inside a file > > > wondering if you can just parse a section of a page, instead of the whole > > thing - so you would have a php script, and it would draw some > > XML-formatted text out of a database and then parse it and spit it out > into > > the middle of an HTML page. Is this possible, or is this bad design with > > XML? (I know that I can just use string parsing functions to properly > > parse my XML stuff, but I want to play with Php's built-in functions) > > Yes. As an example, Oingo.com allows you to access their web directory and > search engine using XML. For one of our clients, I wrote a PHP script which > retrieves the appropriate XML file, formats it, and puts the output into a > table cell from a template. > > (The code Oingo provided is a really nasty Perl CGI. No XML parser or > anything, just a bunch of regular expressions. The PHP is a LOT cleaner.) > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >