Read XML with PHP

[missing-score]

I want to be able to read something like the following with PHP:

<maintag>
<tag id="x">Info</tag>
<open name="x" num="y">Info</open>
</maintag>

Is this possible? if so could you help!!!

The reason is cos I am running a site using txt files and I would prefer to use XML. Have a look

Thanks

Matt

[brothercake]

There are two ways I know of:

1 - there's a simple api for XML which is native to PHP4 - documented at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php - It works well and it's stable, but there's no validation and it's not a DOM parser - it has no concept of the nature of the document, it just stores the nodes, attributes and values in PHP variables. My experience was initially very positive, but I was more interested in XSLT ...

2 - PHP has XSLT function - documented at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php - for this you need to install an extension called Sablotron - http://www.gingerall.com/charlie/ga/xml/x_sabphp.xml - and it truly rocks Really simple - takes about 4 lines of PHP, which is particularly great if you want environment independence for your data - and it's a true DOM parser with full XPath support. This is my recomendation

[missing-score]

That's what i'm looking for, cheers!

Matt