Re: How to parse an XML document

Hello, Php Rules wrote: > > Hi fellas. > > I would like to know the way to parse an XML document. > > I come from Java world, and you can handle an XML document, > and > then show it as an HTML page. > > I suppose that it's also possible by using PHP, isn't it? > > I would like also to know if it's available in the 'standard > installation' of PHP. I mean, I want to develop this on a > remote > server. It uses PHP, and I suppose that it's not installated > any > extra module, so I wonder if the XML parsing needs any extra > module > or not. PHP comes built in support for parsing XML documents with James Clark Expat parser and also GNOME DOM XML parser. I used Expat support for bulding this generic parser class that puts all tags and data in a single associative array indexed by they path name encoded in a single string. http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/4 In the same site you may also find many other classes for processing and generating XML: http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/class/4 If you came from the Java world, you will appreciate the whole site because it is a repository from OOP classes of objects written in PHP: http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html And also this mailing list that is meant for discussing OOP in PHP. It was started just a few days ago, but it already has almost 200 subscribers. Here you may find answers for you OOP with PHP questions. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ Regards, Manuel Lemos