Re: XML parser

Tomi Holger Engdahl said the following on 28/02/2006 12:01:
"Joshua Morgan" <joshua.morgan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

A general XML parser, and that is actually what I was considering
doing, using regular expression to pull out the data and put it into a
nice array that can be used by some functions.

You can find examples of reading XML files using three different techniques (including that regular expression method) at this article:

Reading and writing the XML DOM with PHP
Using the DOM library, SAX parser and regular expressions
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/os-xmldomphp/?ca=dgr-lnxw06XML-PHP


And as that article says, use of regular expressions to "parse" XML is a bad idea unless you're absolutely sure that the XML string/file is well-formed and valid.


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Oli
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