Published on 2005-12-11 20:20:29
The article is for intermediate level and show in details since the XML document until reading the data using the different techniques DOM, SAX and regular expression. The article describe also how to write XML using DOM and SAX and the example used of the xml book is very well explained and show details of why XML created with PHP could be annoying, because you could miss that entities and making valid XML document.
However Jack concluded with : XML has always had a lot of hype and confusion surrounding it. However, it's not as difficult as you think it is -- especially in a great language like PHP. When you understand and implement XML properly, you'll find there are a lot of powerful tools you can use. XPath and XSLT are two such tools that are worth checking out.. All the necessary tools are available in PHP, but an understanding of XML is necessary to use them correctly.
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