Yes, I am aware of the problem. However, for the very simple XML files that I'm being asked to process, it's not an issue -- each file has, for example, one and only one occurrence of "fullname" .... So, while I realize that any solution I achieve for this project will have virtually no portability to any future project, it would help me out of a terrible mind in dealing with today's issue :-)
thanks.
kenn
Jason Barnett wrote:
Kenn Murrah wrote:
Greetings.
I've been RTFM all morning and for the live of me can't figure out how to relate the element name to its data, e.g. if the element name is "fullname" and the data is "John Doe' how do I achieve $fullname = "John Doe" .... I must not be understanding how xml_parse works, and my searches have turned up nothing.
Perhaps you should consider how you want your data structured. I'm not sure what you're doing exactly, but consider the following file:
<root>
<people>
<person>
<fullname>John Doe</fullname>
</person>
</people>
<person>
<fullname>Ken Murrah</fullname>
</person>
<person>
<fullname>Jason Barnett</fullname>
</person>
</root>
Do you see the problem? By assigning the character data to the element tag each time, you would end up with $fullname = "Jason Barnett". Would you want this to be an array instead to grab all "fullname" tags?
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks.
function startElement($xml_parser, $name, $attributes) {
print("<p><i>Encountered Start Element For: </i>$name\n");
}
function endElement($xml_parser, $name) {
print("<p><i>Encountered End Element For: <i/>$name\n");
}
function characterData($xml_parser, $data) {
if ($data != "\n") {
$data = ereg_replace ("\:", "&", $data);
print ("<p><i>Encountered Character Data: </i>$data\n");
}
}
function load_data($file) {
$fh = fopen($file, "r") or die ("<p>COULD NOT OPEN FILE!");
$data = fread($fh, filesize($file));
return $data;
}
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler ($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
xml_parse($xml_parser, load_data($file)) or die ("<p>ERROR PARSING XML!");
xml_parser_free($xml_parser) ;
If you're trying to keep track of attributes more directly you might try using the Dom functions instead.
PHP4: http://www.php.net/domxml
(recommended) PHP5: https://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php
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