Aral Balkan

I'm hacking together a little something in PHP and I found myself in the unfortunate position of having to use XML. If you find yourself in such a sad predicament, Keith Devens's PHP XML Library can make your life easier.

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• Hi Aral, Last time I tried to parse a XML file in PHP was after using XPath in Flash, so I decided to find something like that for PHP. I finally found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxpath/ It's not super-easy to use, but does the work. Cheers!

  by Zarate on 2006-12-19 13:02:54

• Cool, thanks for the link. XPath falls into the "more complicated than necessary" category for me after getting used to the transparent simplicity of E4X. I was actually thinking of using Java for this just so I could use Rhino but decided against it for other reasons.

  by aral on 2006-12-19 13:45:38

• Question: what PHP version are you using? If you're on PHP 5 then you should be able to use SimpleXML[1] or XMLReader[2]. [1]http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php [2]http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xmlreader.php (note: probably not available in 5.0, bundled and enabled by default in 5.1 )

  by Aaron Heimlich on 2006-12-19 22:29:41