Re: XMLReader vs. SAX

To also answer the question from previous email. There is no rewind functionality. You will need to use $reader->XML(...) again. Calling close() is optional. Its current functionality will close and free the internal resources (just as calling ->XML() will do if needed) as there is a bug in libxml up to and including 2.6.8 in xmlTextReaderClose() so the internal functionality was left as is for now. From: "Vivian Steller > - first, is XMLReader more "lightweight" than SAX meaning less powerfull? in > fact it is simpler. Its not less powerful, just easier to use. > - is XMLReader faster than SAX, especially if you want to create a DOM > structure with SAX-callbackfuncs or with XMLReader->expand()? xmlReader is faster at least in PHP. Building a DOMDocument object may be possible in future releases, something I've looked at but havent worked on yet since it requires libxml 2.6.x. http://blog.bitflux.ch/archive/processing_large_xml_documents_with_php.html http://blog.bitflux.ch/archive/processing_large_xml_documents_with_php_5_update.html > - isn't it possible to programm an "xmlreader" with SAX? would this be > better/faster than XMLReader extension? SAX: can you stop the processing > procedure while xml parsing? If you try to do it in PHP using the xml extension it it would be even slower than the comparisons are now. Rob