Re: XML/RSS Weirdness

On Mon Feb 17, 2003 at 10:4715AM +0200, Yavor Shahpasov wrote: > am using XML/RSS in the following manner > > $rss = new XML_RSS($channel); > $rss->parse(); > $feeds = $rss->getItems(); > > at this stage $fedds is an empty array, while the rss file is a valid url > > $rss =& new XML_RSS($channel); > $rss->parse(); > $feeds = $rss->getItems(); > > doing the above seems to work, can anyone explain why (martin?), IIRC that's because XML_RSS derives from XML_Parser and in that case the call by reference is needed to make the *Element() methods, which are used by the Expat extenion during parsing the XML file, work. My explanation may be wrong, but I don't have the time to dig into this deeper at the moment. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/