downloads | documentation | faq | getting help | mailing lists | licenses | wiki | reporting bugs | php.net sites | links | conferences | my php.net

search for in the

utf8_decode> <xdiff_string_patch
[edit] Last updated: Mon, 01 Nov 2010

view this page in

CLXXI. XML, Analisadores

Introdução

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) é um formato de dados para intercâmbio de documentos na Web. Ele é um padrão definido pela The World Wide Web consortium (W3C). Informações sobre XML e tecnologias relacionadas pode, ser encontradas em http://www.w3.org/XML/.

Esta extensão do PHP implementa suporte para o James Clark's expat no PHP. Esta ferramenta permite que você analise, mas não valide, documentos XML. Ele suporta três source character encodings também fornecido pelo PHP: US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 e UTF-8. UTF-16 não é suportado.

Esta extensão te permite criar analisadores XML e então definir manipuladores (handlers) para diferentes eventos XML. Cada analisador XML também tem alguns parâmetros que você pode ajustar.

Dependências

Esta extensão utiliza o expat, que pode ser encontrado em http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html. O makefile que vem com o expat, por definição não constrói uma biblioteca, você pode usar as regras de 'make' para isso:

libexpat.a: $(OBJS)
    ar -rc $@ $(OBJS)
    ranlib $@
Um pacote dos fontes RPM do expat podem ser encontrados em http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/.

Instalação

Estas funções estão por definição habilitadas, usando o pacote expat library. Você pode desabilitar o suporte a XML com --disable-xml. Se você compilou o PHP como um módulo do Apache 1.3.9 ou mais novo, o PHP automaticamente utilizará o pacote expat library do Apache. Regularmente você não quer utilizar a configuração do pacote expat library do PHP --with-expat-dir=DIR, onde DIR apontaria para o diretório base de instalação do expat.

A versão para Windows do PHP tem suporte embutido para esta extensão. Você não precisa carregar nenhuma extensão adicional para utilizar essas funções.

Configurações em execução

Esta extensão não define nenhum parâmetro de configuração no php.ini.

Tipos Resource

xml

O recurso xml enquanto retornado por xml_parser_create() e xml_parser_create_ns() refere-se a uma instância do analisador xml para ser usada coms as funções fornecidas por esta extensão.

Constantes pré-definidas

As contantes abaixo são definidas por esta extensão e somente estarão disponíveis quando a extensão foi compilada com o PHP ou carregada dinamicamente durante a execução.

XML_ERROR_NONE (integer)

XML_ERROR_NO_MEMORY (integer)

XML_ERROR_SYNTAX (integer)

XML_ERROR_NO_ELEMENTS (integer)

XML_ERROR_INVALID_TOKEN (integer)

XML_ERROR_UNCLOSED_TOKEN (integer)

XML_ERROR_PARTIAL_CHAR (integer)

XML_ERROR_TAG_MISMATCH (integer)

XML_ERROR_DUPLICATE_ATTRIBUTE (integer)

XML_ERROR_JUNK_AFTER_DOC_ELEMENT (integer)

XML_ERROR_PARAM_ENTITY_REF (integer)

XML_ERROR_UNDEFINED_ENTITY (integer)

XML_ERROR_RECURSIVE_ENTITY_REF (integer)

XML_ERROR_ASYNC_ENTITY (integer)

XML_ERROR_BAD_CHAR_REF (integer)

XML_ERROR_BINARY_ENTITY_REF (integer)

XML_ERROR_ATTRIBUTE_EXTERNAL_ENTITY_REF (integer)

XML_ERROR_MISPLACED_XML_PI (integer)

XML_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING (integer)

XML_ERROR_INCORRECT_ENCODING (integer)

XML_ERROR_UNCLOSED_CDATA_SECTION (integer)

XML_ERROR_EXTERNAL_ENTITY_HANDLING (integer)

XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING (integer)

XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING (integer)

XML_OPTION_SKIP_TAGSTART (integer)

XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE (integer)

Manipuladores (handlers) de Evento

Os manipuladores (handlers) de eventos de XML definidos são:

Tabela 1. Manipuladores XML Suportados

função do PHP para definir o manipulador(handler)Descrição do evento
xml_set_element_handler() Eventos elementares são emitidos toda vez que o analisador XML o início ou o fim das tags. Há manipuladores (handlers) separadores para tags de início e tags de fim.
xml_set_character_data_handler() Dados de caractere são aproximadamente todo o conteúdo de documentos XML, incluindo espaços em branco entre as tags. Note que o analisador XML não adiciona ou remove qualquer espaço em branco, ele está pronto para a aplicação se você decidir que espaços em branco são significativos.
xml_set_processing_instruction_handler() Programadores de PHP já estariam familiarizados com instruções de processo (PIs). <?php ?> é uma instrução de processo, onde php é chamada de o "PI target". O tratamento destes são application-specific, exceto que todos os PI targets iniciados com "XML" estão reservados.
xml_set_default_handler() O que não vai para outro manipulador vai para o manipulador padrão. Você conseguirá coisas como o XML e declarações do tipo de documento no manipulador padrão.
xml_set_unparsed_entity_decl_handler() Este manipulador será chamado por uma declaração de um entity não analisada (NDATA).
xml_set_notation_decl_handler() Este manipulador é chamado pela declaração de uma nota.
xml_set_external_entity_ref_handler() Este manipulador é chamado quando o analisador XML encontra uma referência para uma entity geral analizada externamente. Isto pode ser uma referência para um arquivo ou URL, por examplo. Veja Um exemplo de entity externa para uma demonstração.

Case Folding

As funções de elementos do manipulador podem conseguir os nomes dos elementos case-folded. Case-folding é definida pelo padrão XML como "um processo aplicado para uma sequência de caracateres, em que aqueles identificados como minúsculos são substituidos pelos seus maiúsculos equivalentes". Em outras palavras, quando vai pro XML, case-folding simplesmente significa mudar pra maiúsculas.

Por definição, todos os nomes de elementos que são passados para as funções de manipulador são case-folded. Este comportamento pode ser perguntado e controlado pelo analisador XML com o xml_parser_get_option() e as funções xml_parser_set_option(), respectivamente.

Error Codes

As seguintes constantes são definidas para erros no código XML (conforme retornado por xml_parse()):

XML_ERROR_NONE
XML_ERROR_NO_MEMORY
XML_ERROR_SYNTAX
XML_ERROR_NO_ELEMENTS
XML_ERROR_INVALID_TOKEN
XML_ERROR_UNCLOSED_TOKEN
XML_ERROR_PARTIAL_CHAR
XML_ERROR_TAG_MISMATCH
XML_ERROR_DUPLICATE_ATTRIBUTE
XML_ERROR_JUNK_AFTER_DOC_ELEMENT
XML_ERROR_PARAM_ENTITY_REF
XML_ERROR_UNDEFINED_ENTITY
XML_ERROR_RECURSIVE_ENTITY_REF
XML_ERROR_ASYNC_ENTITY
XML_ERROR_BAD_CHAR_REF
XML_ERROR_BINARY_ENTITY_REF
XML_ERROR_ATTRIBUTE_EXTERNAL_ENTITY_REF
XML_ERROR_MISPLACED_XML_PI
XML_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING
XML_ERROR_INCORRECT_ENCODING
XML_ERROR_UNCLOSED_CDATA_SECTION
XML_ERROR_EXTERNAL_ENTITY_HANDLING

Codificação de Caracter

A Extensão XML do PHP suporta o caracter Unicode definido por character encodings (codificação de caracteres) diferentes. Há dois tipos de codificação de caracteres, source encoding e target encoding. A apresentação interna do PHP do documento é sempre codificada com UTF-8.

Source encoding é feita quando um documento XML é analisado. Em criando um analisador XML, um source encoding pode ser especificado (Esta codificação não poderá ser mudada após o tempo de vida do analisador XML). As codificações suportadas são ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII e UTF-8. O segundo são codificações single-byte, que significa que cada caractere é representado por um byte simples. UTF-8 pode codificar caracteres compostos por um número de bits variável (acima de 21) em um de seus 4 bytes. O source encoding padrão utilizado pelo PHP é ISO-8859-1.

Target encoding é feito quando o PHP passa dados para as funções do analisador XML. Quando um analisador XML é criado, o target encoding é definido igual ao source encoding, mas este pode ser mudado em qualquer ponto. O target encoding afetará dados de caracter tão bem como nome de tags e processando alvos da instrução.

Se o analisador XML encontra caracteres de fora da linha que seu source encoding é capaz de detalhar, ele retornará um erro.

Se PHP encontra caracteres no documento XML analisado que não podem ser detalhados selecionados com target encoding, os caracteres com problema serão "demoted". Atualmente, isto significa que tais caracteres serão substituidos por um sinal de interrogação.

Exemplos

Aqui estão alguns exemplos de scripts PHP analisando documentos XML.

Exemplo estruturado de elementos XML

Este primeiro exemplo mostra a estrutura de elementos iniciais num documento com distanciamento da margem.

Exemplo 1. Mostra estrutura do elemento XML

<?php
$file
= "data.xml";
$depth = array();

function
startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
    global
$depth;
    for (
$i = 0; $i < $depth[$parser]; $i++) {
        echo
"  ";
    }
    echo
"$name\n";
   
$depth[$parser]++;
}

function
endElement($parser, $name) {
    global
$depth;
   
$depth[$parser]--;
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
if (!(
$fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
    die(
"could not open XML input");
}

while (
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
    if (!
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
        die(
sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                   
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                   
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
    }
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>

Exemplo arrumação de Tag XML

Exemplo 2. Arrumar XML to HTML

Este exemplo arruma tags do documento XML diretamente para tags HTML. Elementos não encontrados no "array de arrumação" são ignorados. É claro, este exemplo trabalhará apenas com um tipo de documento XML específico.

<?php
$file
= "data.xml";
$map_array = array(
   
"BOLD"     => "B",
   
"EMPHASIS" => "I",
   
"LITERAL"  => "TT"
);

function
startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
    global
$map_array;
    if (
$htmltag == $map_array[$name]) {
        echo
"<$htmltag>";
    }
}

function
endElement($parser, $name) {
    global
$map_array;
    if (
$htmltag == $map_array[$name]) {
        echo
"</$htmltag>";
    }
}

function
characterData($parser, $data) {
    echo
$data;
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
// use case-folding so we are sure to find the tag in $map_array
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, true);
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!(
$fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
    die(
"could not open XML input");
}

while (
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
    if (!
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
        die(
sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                   
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                   
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
    }
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>

Exemplo XML de Entity externa

Este exemplo destaca o código XML. Ele ilusta como utilizar um analisador de referência a uma entity externa para incluir e analisar outros documentos, tão bem como PIs (instruções de processo) podem ser processadas, e uma forma de determinar "trust" para PIs contendo códigos.

Documentos XML que podem ser utilizados para este exemplo são encontrados abaixo do exemplo (xmltest.xml e xmltest2.xml.)

Exemplo 3. Exemplo de Entity externa

<?php
$file
= "xmltest.xml";

function
trustedFile($file) {
   
// only trust local files owned by ourselves
   
if (!eregi("^([a-z]+)://", $file)
        &&
fileowner($file) == getmyuid()) {
            return
true;
    }
    return
false;
}

function
startElement($parser, $name, $attribs) {
    echo
"&lt;<font color=\"#0000cc\">$name</font>";
    if (
sizeof($attribs)) {
        while (list(
$k, $v) = each($attribs)) {
            echo
" <font color=\"#009900\">$k</font>=\"<font
                   color=\"#990000\">$v</font>\""
;
        }
    }
    echo
"&gt;";
}

function
endElement($parser, $name) {
    echo
"&lt;/<font color=\"#0000cc\">$name</font>&gt;";
}

function
characterData($parser, $data) {
    echo
"<b>$data</b>";
}

function
PIHandler($parser, $target, $data) {
    switch (
strtolower($target)) {
        case
"php":
            global
$parser_file;
           
// If the parsed document is "trusted", we say it is safe
            // to execute PHP code inside it.  If not, display the code
            // instead.
           
if (trustedFile($parser_file[$parser])) {
                eval(
$data);
            } else {
               
printf("Untrusted PHP code: <i>%s</i>",
                       
htmlspecialchars($data));
            }
            break;
    }
}

function
defaultHandler($parser, $data) {
    if (
substr($data, 0, 1) == "&" && substr($data, -1, 1) == ";") {
       
printf('<font color="#aa00aa">%s</font>',
               
htmlspecialchars($data));
    } else {
       
printf('<font size="-1">%s</font>',
               
htmlspecialchars($data));
    }
}

function
externalEntityRefHandler($parser, $openEntityNames, $base, $systemId,
                                 
$publicId) {
    if (
$systemId) {
        if (!list(
$parser, $fp) = new_xml_parser($systemId)) {
           
printf("Could not open entity %s at %s\n", $openEntityNames,
                  
$systemId);
            return
false;
        }
        while (
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
            if (!
xml_parse($parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
               
printf("XML error: %s at line %d while parsing entity %s\n",
                      
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)),
                      
xml_get_current_line_number($parser), $openEntityNames);
               
xml_parser_free($parser);
                return
false;
            }
        }
       
xml_parser_free($parser);
        return
true;
    }
    return
false;
}

function
new_xml_parser($file) {
    global
$parser_file;

   
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
   
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 1);
   
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
   
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
   
xml_set_processing_instruction_handler($xml_parser, "PIHandler");
   
xml_set_default_handler($xml_parser, "defaultHandler");
   
xml_set_external_entity_ref_handler($xml_parser, "externalEntityRefHandler");
   
    if (!(
$fp = @fopen($file, "r"))) {
        return
false;
    }
    if (!
is_array($parser_file)) {
       
settype($parser_file, "array");
    }
   
$parser_file[$xml_parser] = $file;
    return array(
$xml_parser, $fp);
}

if (!(list(
$xml_parser, $fp) = new_xml_parser($file))) {
    die(
"could not open XML input");
}

echo
"<pre>";
while (
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
    if (!
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
        die(
sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d\n",
                   
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                   
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
    }
}
echo
"</pre>";
echo
"parse complete\n";
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

?>

Exemplo 4. xmltest.xml

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "/just/a/test.dtd" [
<!ENTITY plainEntity "FOO entity">
<!ENTITY systemEntity SYSTEM "xmltest2.xml">
]>
<chapter>
 <TITLE>Título &plainEntity;</TITLE>
 <para>
  <informaltable>
   <tgroup cols="3">
    <tbody>
     <row><entry>a1</entry><entry morerows="1">b1</entry><entry>c1</entry></row>
     <row><entry>a2</entry><entry>c2</entry></row>
     <row><entry>a3</entry><entry>b3</entry><entry>c3</entry></row>
    </tbody>
   </tgroup>
  </informaltable>
 </para>
 &systemEntity;
 <section id="about">
  <title>Sobre este documento</title>
  <para>
   <!-- this is a comment -->
   <?php echo 'Hi!  This is PHP version '.phpversion(); ?>
  </para>
 </section>
</chapter>

Este arquivo está incluido de xmltest.xml:

Exemplo 5. xmltest2.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [
<!ENTITY testEnt "test entity">
]>
<foo>
   <element attrib="value"/>
   &testEnt;
   <?php print "This is some more PHP code being executed."; ?>
</foo>

Índice
utf8_decode --  Converte uma string com caracteres ISO-8859-1 codificadas com UTF-8 para single-byte ISO-8859-1.
utf8_encode -- Codifica um string ISO-8859-1 para UTF-8
xml_error_string -- Obtém uma string de erro do analisador XML
xml_get_current_byte_index -- Obtém o índice do byte atual para um analisador XML
xml_get_current_column_number --  Obtém o número da coluna atual para um analisador XML
xml_get_current_line_number -- Obtém o número da linha para um analisador XML
xml_get_error_code -- Obtém um código de erro do analisador XML
xml_parse_into_struct -- Analisa dados XML dentro de uma estrutura de array
xml_parse -- Inicia a análise em um documento XML
xml_parser_create_ns --  Cria um analisador XML com suporte a namespace (uma estrutura do XML)
xml_parser_create -- cria um analisador XML
xml_parser_free -- Free an XML parser
xml_parser_get_option -- Get options from an XML parser
xml_parser_set_option -- Set options in an XML parser
xml_set_character_data_handler -- Set up character data handler
xml_set_default_handler -- Set up default handler
xml_set_element_handler -- Set up start and end element handlers
xml_set_end_namespace_decl_handler --  Set up end namespace declaration handler
xml_set_external_entity_ref_handler -- Set up external entity reference handler
xml_set_notation_decl_handler -- Set up notation declaration handler
xml_set_object -- Use XML Parser within an object
xml_set_processing_instruction_handler --  Set up processing instruction (PI) handler
xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler --  Set up start namespace declaration handler
xml_set_unparsed_entity_decl_handler --  Set up unparsed entity declaration handler


utf8_decode> <xdiff_string_patch
[edit] Last updated: Mon, 01 Nov 2010
 
add a note add a note User Contributed Notes XML, Analisadores
Glen at ITIStudios dot ca 02-Dec-2011 03:37
<?php
/**
 *  XML to Associative Array Class
 *
 *  Usage:
 *     $domObj = new xmlToArrayParser($xml);
 *     $domArr = $domObj->array;
 *    
 *     if($domObj->parse_error) echo $domObj->get_xml_error();
 *     else print_r($domArr);
 *
 *     On Success:
 *     eg. $domArr['top']['element2']['attrib']['var2'] => val2
 *
 *     On Error:
 *     eg. Error Code [76] "Mismatched tag", at char 58 on line 3
 */

/**
 * Convert an xml file or string to an associative array (including the tag attributes):
 * $domObj = new xmlToArrayParser($xml);
 * $elemVal = $domObj->array['element']
 * Or:  $domArr=$domObj->array;  $elemVal = $domArr['element'].
 *
 * @version  2.0
 * @param Str $xml file/string.
 */
class xmlToArrayParser {
 
/** The array created by the parser can be assigned to any variable: $anyVarArr = $domObj->array.*/
 
public  $array = array();
  public 
$parse_error = false;
  private
$parser;
  private
$pointer;
 
 
/** Constructor: $domObj = new xmlToArrayParser($xml); */
 
public function __construct($xml) {
   
$this->pointer =& $this->array;
   
$this->parser = xml_parser_create("UTF-8");
   
xml_set_object($this->parser, $this);
   
xml_parser_set_option($this->parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, false);
   
xml_set_element_handler($this->parser, "tag_open", "tag_close");
   
xml_set_character_data_handler($this->parser, "cdata");
   
$this->parse_error = xml_parse($this->parser, ltrim($xml))? false : true;
  }
 
 
/** Free the parser. */
 
public function __destruct() { xml_parser_free($this->parser);}

 
/** Get the xml error if an an error in the xml file occured during parsing. */
 
public function get_xml_error() {
    if(
$this->parse_error) {
     
$errCode = xml_get_error_code ($this->parser);
     
$thisError "Error Code [". $errCode ."] \"<strong style='color:red;'>" . xml_error_string($errCode)."</strong>\",
                            at char "
.xml_get_current_column_number($this->parser) . "
                            on line "
.xml_get_current_line_number($this->parser)."";
    }else
$thisError = $this->parse_error;
    return
$thisError;
  }
 
  private function
tag_open($parser, $tag, $attributes) {
   
$this->convert_to_array($tag, 'attrib');
   
$idx=$this->convert_to_array($tag, 'cdata');
    if(isset(
$idx)) {
     
$this->pointer[$tag][$idx] = Array('@idx' => $idx,'@parent' => &$this->pointer);
     
$this->pointer =& $this->pointer[$tag][$idx];
    }else {
     
$this->pointer[$tag] = Array('@parent' => &$this->pointer);
     
$this->pointer =& $this->pointer[$tag];
    }
    if (!empty(
$attributes)) { $this->pointer['attrib'] = $attributes; }
  }

 
/** Adds the current elements content to the current pointer[cdata] array. */
 
private function cdata($parser, $cdata) { $this->pointer['cdata'] = trim($cdata); }

  private function
tag_close($parser, $tag) {
   
$current = & $this->pointer;
    if(isset(
$this->pointer['@idx'])) {unset($current['@idx']);}
   
   
$this->pointer = & $this->pointer['@parent'];
    unset(
$current['@parent']);
   
    if(isset(
$current['cdata']) && count($current) == 1) { $current = $current['cdata'];}
    else if(empty(
$current['cdata'])) {unset($current['cdata']);}
  }
 
 
/** Converts a single element item into array(element[0]) if a second element of the same name is encountered. */
 
private function convert_to_array($tag, $item) {
    if(isset(
$this->pointer[$tag][$item])) {
     
$content = $this->pointer[$tag];
     
$this->pointer[$tag] = array((0) => $content);
     
$idx = 1;
    }else if (isset(
$this->pointer[$tag])) {
     
$idx = count($this->pointer[$tag]);
      if(!isset(
$this->pointer[$tag][0])) {
        foreach (
$this->pointer[$tag] as $key => $value) {
            unset(
$this->pointer[$tag][$key]);
           
$this->pointer[$tag][0][$key] = $value;
    }}}else
$idx = null;
    return
$idx;
  }
}
?>

This is supplimental information for the "class xmlToArrayParser".
This is a fully functional error free, extensively tested php class unlike the posts that follow it.

Key phrase: Fully functional, fully tested, error free XML To Array parser.

<?php
/**
 * class xmlToArrayParser
 *
  Notes:
  1. 'attrib' and 'cdata' are keys added to the array when the element contains both attributes and content.
  2. Ignores content that is not in between it's own set of tags.
  3. Don't know if it recognizes processing instructions nor do I know about processing instructions.
     <\?some_pi some_attr="some_value"?>  This is the same as a document declaration.
  4. Empty elements are not included unless they have attributes.
  5. Version 2.0, Dec. 2, 2011, added xml error reporting.
 
  Usage:
    $domObj = new xmlToArrayParser($xml);
    $elemVal = $domObj->array['element']
    Or assign the entire array to its own variable:
    $domArr = $domObj->array;
    $elemVal = $domArr['element']
 
  Example:
    $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
    <top>
      <element1>element content 1</element1>
      <element2 var2="val2" />
      <element3 var3="val3" var4="val4">element content 3</element3>
      <element3 var5="val5">element content 4</element3>
      <element3 var6="val6" />
      <element3>element content 7</element3>
    </top>';
   
    $domObj = new xmlToArrayParser($xml);
    $domArr = $domObj->array;
   
    if($domObj->parse_error) echo $domObj->get_xml_error();
    else print_r($domArr);

    On Success:
    $domArr['top']['element1'] => element content 1
    $domArr['top']['element2']['attrib']['var2'] => val2
    $domArr['top']['element3']['0']['attrib']['var3'] => val3
    $domArr['top']['element3']['0']['attrib']['var4'] => val4
    $domArr['top']['element3']['0']['cdata'] => element content 3
    $domArr['top']['element3']['1']['attrib']['var5'] => val5
    $domArr['top']['element3']['1']['cdata'] => element content 4
    $domArr['top']['element3']['2']['attrib']['var6'] => val6
    $domArr['top']['element3']['3'] => element content 7
   
    On Error:
    Error Code [76] "Mismatched tag", at char 58 on line 3
 *
 */
?>
wolfon.AT-DoG.inbox.ru 28-Jul-2008 03:09
Finally a simple xml => array class.
Functioning like SimpleXML library.

<?php
class xml  {
    private
$parser;
    private
$pointer;
    public
$dom;
   
    public function
__construct($data) {
       
$this->pointer =& $this->dom;
       
$this->parser = xml_parser_create();
       
xml_set_object($this->parser, $this);
       
xml_parser_set_option($this->parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, false);
       
xml_set_element_handler($this->parser, "tag_open", "tag_close");
       
xml_set_character_data_handler($this->parser, "cdata");
       
xml_parse($this->parser, $data);
    }
  
    private function
tag_open($parser, $tag, $attributes) {
        if (isset(
$this->pointer[$tag]['@attributes'])) {
           
$content = $this->pointer[$tag];
           
$this->pointer[$tag] = array(0 => $content);
           
$idx = 1;
        } else if (isset(
$this->pointer[$tag]))
           
$idx = count($this->pointer[$tag]);

        if (isset(
$idx)) {
           
$this->pointer[$tag][$idx] = Array(
               
'@idx' => $idx,
               
'@parent' => &$this->pointer);
              
$this->pointer =& $this->pointer[$tag][$idx];
        } else {
           
$this->pointer[$tag] = Array(
               
'@parent' => &$this->pointer);
           
$this->pointer =& $this->pointer[$tag];
        }
        if (!empty(
$attributes))
           
$this->pointer['@attributes'] = $attributes;
    }

    private function
cdata($parser, $cdata) {
          
$this->pointer['@data'] = $cdata;
    }

    private function
tag_close($parser, $tag) {
       
$current = & $this->pointer;
        if (isset(
$this->pointer['@idx']))
            unset(
$current['@idx']);
       
       
$this->pointer = & $this->pointer['@parent'];
       
          unset(
$current['@parent']);
           if (isset(
$current['@data']) && count($current) == 1)
              
$current = $current['@data'];
           else if (empty(
$current['@data'])||$current['@data']==0)
               unset(
$current['@data']);
    }
}
?>

maybe I'll do some explanations on habr
geoff at spacevs dot com 07-Nov-2007 09:13
Reading xml into a class:

<?PHP
       
class XmlData {}
       
$elements = array();
       
$elements[] =& new XmlData();
        function
startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
                global
$elements;
               
$element =& new XMLData();
               
$elements[count($elements)-1]->$name =& $element;
               
$elements[] =& $element;
        }
        function
endElement($parser, $name) {
                global
$elements;
               
array_pop($elements);
        }
        function
characterData($parser, $data) {
                global
$elements;
               
$elements[count($elements)-1]->data = $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, $xml, true);
       
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
       
$request =& array_pop($elements);

        echo
$request->LOGIN->USER->data;
?>
demonpants at gmail dot com 22-Oct-2007 08:59
I wanted to access the ISBN database, and was previously parsing the HTML string generated from their main page, that is until I discovered they have an API that returns XML.

So, if anyone wants to get some information from the ISBN database, all you need to do is the following.

<?php
//Search the ISBN database for the book.
           
$url = "http://www.isbndb.com/api/books.xml? access_key=KEY&index1=isbn&value1=$_GET[ISBN]";
           
$p = xml_parser_create();
           
xml_parse_into_struct($p,file_get_contents($url),$results,$index);
           
xml_parser_free($p);

           
$title = $results[$index[TITLELONG][0]][value];
           
$author = $results[$index[AUTHORSTEXT][0]][value];
           
$publisher = $results[$index[PUBLISHERTEXT][0]][value];
?>

You will need to get an access key from isbndb.com, but it takes two seconds and is free. When you get it, replace KEY in the URL with your own key. Also, my code above will search for the book that fits the ISBN number stored in the GET variable ISBN - you can search by other parameters and return more than one result, but my example is  for a simple ISBN search.
Zvjezdan Patz 09-Sep-2007 08:22
The problem I had was I needed to generate xml on the screen for users to actually see and copy to a file. 

I'm generating the xml manually from a php file and the browser kept interpreting the xml...not very helpful. 

This is how you get around it:

<?php

$file 
= file_get_contents("http://example.com/xml.php?whatever=$whatever");
print
nl2br(htmlentities($file));

?>

Prints all my xml quite nicely.
v9 at fakehalo dot us 13-Jul-2007 08:04
I needed this for work/personal use.  Sometimes you'll have a XML string generated as one long string and no line breaks...nusoap in the case of today/work, but there are any other number of possible things that will generate these.  Anyways, this simply takes a long XML string and returns an indented/line-breaked version of the string for display/readability.

<?php
function xmlIndent($str){
   
$ret = "";
   
$indent = 0;
   
$indentInc = 3;
   
$noIndent = false;
    while((
$l = strpos($str,"<",$i))!==false){
        if(
$l!=$r && $indent>0){ $ret .= "\n" . str_repeat(" ",$indent) . substr($str,$r,($l-$r)); }
       
$i = $l+1;
       
$r = strpos($str,">",$i)+1;
       
$t = substr($str,$l,($r-$l));
        if(
strpos($t,"/")==1){
           
$indent -= $indentInc;
           
$noIndent = true;
        }
        else if((
$r-$l-strpos($t,"/"))==2 || substr($t,0,2)=="<?"){ $noIndent = true; }
        if(
$indent<0){ $indent = 0; }
        if(
$ret){ $ret .= "\n"; }
       
$ret .= str_repeat(" ",$indent);
       
$ret .= $t;
        if(!
$noIndent){ $indent += $indentInc; }
       
$noIndent = false;
    }
   
$ret .= "\n";
    return(
$ret);
}
?>

(...this was only tested for what i needed at work, could POSSIBLY need additions)
geoffers [at] gmail [dot] com 30-Dec-2006 03:27
Time to add my attempt at a very simple script that parses XML into a structure:

<?php

class Simple_Parser
{
    var
$parser;
    var
$error_code;
    var
$error_string;
    var
$current_line;
    var
$current_column;
    var
$data = array();
    var
$datas = array();
   
    function
parse($data)
    {
       
$this->parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8');
       
xml_set_object($this->parser, $this);
       
xml_parser_set_option($this->parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1);
       
xml_set_element_handler($this->parser, 'tag_open', 'tag_close');
       
xml_set_character_data_handler($this->parser, 'cdata');
        if (!
xml_parse($this->parser, $data))
        {
           
$this->data = array();
           
$this->error_code = xml_get_error_code($this->parser);
           
$this->error_string = xml_error_string($this->error_code);
           
$this->current_line = xml_get_current_line_number($this->parser);
           
$this->current_column = xml_get_current_column_number($this->parser);
        }
        else
        {
           
$this->data = $this->data['child'];
        }
       
xml_parser_free($this->parser);
    }

    function
tag_open($parser, $tag, $attribs)
    {
       
$this->data['child'][$tag][] = array('data' => '', 'attribs' => $attribs, 'child' => array());
       
$this->datas[] =& $this->data;
       
$this->data =& $this->data['child'][$tag][count($this->data['child'][$tag])-1];
    }

    function
cdata($parser, $cdata)
    {
       
$this->data['data'] .= $cdata;
    }

    function
tag_close($parser, $tag)
    {
       
$this->data =& $this->datas[count($this->datas)-1];
       
array_pop($this->datas);
    }
}

$xml_parser = new Simple_Parser;
$xml_parser->parse('<foo><bar>test</bar></foo>');

?>
Didier: dlvb ** free * fr 24-Dec-2006 09:53
Hi !

After parsing the XML and modifying it, I just add a method to rebuild the XML form the internal structure (xmlp->document).
The method xmlp->toXML writes into xmlp->XML attributes. Then, you just have to output it.
I hope it helps.

<?php
class XMLParser {

var
$parser;
var
$filePath;
var
$document;
var
$currTag;
var
$tagStack;
var
$XML;
var
$_tag_to_close = false;
var
$TAG_ATTRIBUT = 'attr';
var
$TAG_DATA = 'data';

function
XMLParser($path) {
   
$this->parser = xml_parser_create();
   
$this->filePath = $path;
   
$this->document = array();
   
$this->currTag =& $this->document;
   
$this->tagStack = array();
   
$this->XML = "";
}

function
parse() {
   
xml_set_object($this->parser, $this);
   
xml_set_character_data_handler($this->parser, 'dataHandler');
   
xml_set_element_handler($this->parser, 'startHandler', 'endHandler');

   if(!(
$fp = fopen($this->filePath, "r"))) {
       die(
"Cannot open XML data file: $this->filePath");
       return
false;
     }

    while(
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
        if(!
xml_parse($this->parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
            die(
sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
               
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->parser)),
            
xml_get_current_line_number($this->parser)));
      }
    }

   
fclose($fp);
   
xml_parser_free($this->parser);

    return
true;
}

function
startHandler($parser, $name, $attribs) {
     if(!isset(
$this->currTag[$name]))
         
$this->currTag[$name] = array();

    
$newTag = array();
     if(!empty(
$attribs))
         
$newTag[$this->TAG_ATTRIBUT] = $attribs;
    
array_push($this->currTag[$name], $newTag);

    
$t =& $this->currTag[$name];
    
$this->currTag =& $t[count($t)-1];
    
array_push($this->tagStack, $name);
}

function
dataHandler($parser, $data) {
   
$data = trim($data);

    if(!empty(
$data)) {
      if(isset(
$this->currTag[$this->TAG_DATA]))
           
$this->currTag[$this->TAG_DATA] .= $data;
      else
           
$this->currTag[$this->TAG_DATA] = $data;
    }
}

function
endHandler($parser, $name) {
    
$this->currTag =& $this->document;
    
array_pop($this->tagStack);

     for(
$i = 0; $i < count($this->tagStack); $i++) {
         
$t =& $this->currTag[$this->tagStack[$i]];
         
$this->currTag =& $t[count($t)-1];
     }
}

function
clearOutput () {
   
$this->XML = "";
}

function
openTag ($tag) {
   
$this->XML.="<".strtolower ($tag);
   
$this->_tag_to_close = true;
}

function
closeTag () {
    if (
$this->_tag_to_close) {
       
$this->XML.=">";
       
$this->_tag_to_close = false;
    }
}

function
closingTag ($tag) {
   
$this->XML.="</".strtolower ($tag).">";
}

function
output_attributes ($contenu_fils) {
    foreach (
$contenu_fils[$this->TAG_ATTRIBUT] as $nomAttribut => $valeur) {
       
$this->XML.= " ".strtolower($nomAttribut)."=\"".$valeur."\"";
    }
}

function
addData ($texte) {
// to be completed
   
$ca  = array ("é", "è", "ê", "à");
   
$par = array ("&eacute;", "&egrave;", "&ecirc;", "agrave;");
    return
htmlspecialchars(str_replace ($ca, $par, $texte), ENT_NOQUOTES);
}

function
toXML ($tags="") {
    if (
$tags=="") {
       
$tags = $this->document;
     
$this->clearOutput ();
    }

    foreach (
$tags as $tag => $contenu) {
       
$this->process ($tag, $contenu);
    }
}

function
process ($tag, $contenu) {
    
// Pour tous les TAGs
   
foreach ($contenu as $indice => $contenu_fils) {
        
$this->openTag ($tag);

        
// Pour tous les fils (non attribut et non data)
        
foreach ($contenu_fils as $tagFils => $fils) {
             switch (
$tagFils) {
                 case
$this->TAG_ATTRIBUT:
                        
$this->output_attributes ($contenu_fils);
                       
$this->closeTag ();
                         break;
                 case
$this->TAG_DATA:
                       
$this->closeTag ();
                        
$this->XML.= $this->addData ($contenu_fils [$this->TAG_DATA]);
                         break;
                 default:
                        
$this->closeTag ();
                        
$this->process ($tagFils, $fils);
                         break;
             }
         }

       
$this->closingTag ($tag);
    }
}

}
?>
forquan 28-Jan-2006 03:45
Here's code that will create an associative array from an xml file.  Keys are the tag data and subarrays are formed from attributes and child tags

<?php
$p
=& new xmlParser();
$p->parse('/*xml file*/');
print_r($p->output);
?>

<?php
class xmlParser{
   var
$xml_obj = null;
   var
$output = array();
   var
$attrs;

   function
xmlParser(){
      
$this->xml_obj = xml_parser_create();
      
xml_set_object($this->xml_obj,$this);
      
xml_set_character_data_handler($this->xml_obj, 'dataHandler');
      
xml_set_element_handler($this->xml_obj, "startHandler", "endHandler");
   }

   function
parse($path){
       if (!(
$fp = fopen($path, "r"))) {
           die(
"Cannot open XML data file: $path");
           return
false;
       }

       while (
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
           if (!
xml_parse($this->xml_obj, $data, feof($fp))) {
               die(
sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
              
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->xml_obj)),
              
xml_get_current_line_number($this->xml_obj)));
              
xml_parser_free($this->xml_obj);
           }
       }

       return
true;
   }

   function
startHandler($parser, $name, $attribs){
      
$_content = array();
       if(!empty(
$attribs))
        
$_content['attrs'] = $attribs;
      
array_push($this->output, $_content);
   }

   function
dataHandler($parser, $data){
       if(!empty(
$data) && $data!="\n") {
          
$_output_idx = count($this->output) - 1;
          
$this->output[$_output_idx]['content'] .= $data;
       }
   }

   function
endHandler($parser, $name){
       if(
count($this->output) > 1) {
          
$_data = array_pop($this->output);
          
$_output_idx = count($this->output) - 1;
          
$add = array();
           if (
$_data['attrs'])
               
$add['attrs'] = $_data['attrs'];
           if (
$_data['child'])
               
$add['child'] = $_data['child'];
          
$this->output[$_output_idx]['child'][$_data['content']] = $add;
       }    
   }
}
?>
Greg S 17-Nov-2005 08:56
If you need utf8_encode support and configure PHP with --disable-all you will have some trouble. Unfortunately the configure options aren't completely documented. If you need utf8 functions and have everything disabled just recompile PHP with --enable-xml and you should be good to go.
compu_global_hyper_mega_net_2 at yahoo dot com 19-Sep-2004 01:35
The documentation regarding white space was never complete I think.

The XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE doesn't appear to do anything.  I want to preserve the newlines in a cdata section.  Setting XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE to 0 or false doesn't appear to help.  My character_data_handler is getting called once for each line.  This obviously should be reflected in the documentation as well.  When/how often does the handler get called exactly?  Having to build separate test cases is very time consuming.

Inserting newlines myself in my cdata handler is no good either.  For non actual CDATA sections that cause my handler to get called, long lines are split up in multiple calls.  My handler would not be able to tell the difference whether or not the subsequent calls would be due to the fact that the data is coming from the next line or the fact that some internal buffer is long enough for it to 'flush' out and call the handler.
This behaviour also needs to be properly documented.
odders 18-Mar-2004 10:36
I wrote a simple xml parser mainly to deal with rss version 2. I found lots of examples on the net, but they were all masive and bloated and hard to manipulate.

Output is sent to an array, which holds arrays containg data for each item.

Obviously, you will have to make modifications to the code to suit your needs, but there isnt a lot of code there, so that shouldnt be a problem.

<?php

   $currentElements
= array();
  
$newsArray = array();

  
readXml("./news.xml");

   echo(
"<pre>");
  
print_r($newsArray);
   echo(
"</pre>");

  
// Reads XML file into formatted html
  
function readXML($xmlFile)
   {

     
$xmlParser = xml_parser_create();

     
xml_parser_set_option($xmlParser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, false);
     
xml_set_element_handler($xmlParser, startElement, endElement);
     
xml_set_character_data_handler($xmlParser, characterData);

     
$fp = fopen($xmlFile, "r");

      while(
$data = fread($fp, filesize($xmlFile))){
        
xml_parse($xmlParser, $data, feof($fp));}

     
xml_parser_free($xmlParser);

   }

  
// Sets the current XML element, and pushes itself onto the element hierarchy
  
function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs)
   {

      global
$currentElements, $itemCount;

     
array_push($currentElements, $name);

      if(
$name == "item"){$itemCount += 1;}

   }

  
// Prints XML data; finds highlights and links
  
function characterData($parser, $data)
   {

      global
$currentElements, $newsArray, $itemCount;

     
$currentCount = count($currentElements);
     
$parentElement = $currentElements[$currentCount-2];
     
$thisElement = $currentElements[$currentCount-1];

      if(
$parentElement == "item"){
        
$newsArray[$itemCount-1][$thisElement] = $data;}
      else{
         switch(
$name){
            case
"title":
               break;
            case
"link":
               break;
            case
"description":
               break;
            case
"language":
               break;
            case
"item":
               break;}}

   }

  
// If the XML element has ended, it is poped off the hierarchy
  
function endElement($parser, $name)
   {

      global
$currentElements;

     
$currentCount = count($currentElements);
      if(
$currentElements[$currentCount-1] == $name){
        
array_pop($currentElements);}

   }

?>
software at serv-a-com dot com 22-Jan-2003 02:08
use:

<?php
while ($data = str_replace("\n","",fread($fp, 4096))){
 
// ...
}
?>

instead of:

<?php
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
 
// ...
}
?>

[UPDATE 17-FEB-2003: This post] resulted in some of the visitors e-mailg me on the carriage return stripping issue with questions. I'll try to make the following mumble as brief and easy to understand as possible.

1. Overview of the 4096 fragmentation issue
As you know the following freads the file 4096 bytes at a time (that is 4KB) this is perhaps ok for testing expat and figuring out how things work, but it it rather dangerous in the production environment. Data may not be fully understandable due to fread fragmentation and improperly formatted due to numerous sources(formats) of data contained within (i.e. end of line delimited CDATA).

<?php
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
  if (!
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
   
// ...
 
}
}
?>

Sometimes to save time one may want to load it all up into a one big variable and leave all the worries to expat. I think anything under 500 KB is ok (as long as nobody knows about it). Some may argue that larger variables are acceptable or even necessary because of the magic that take place while parsing using xml_parse. Our XML parser(expat) works and can be successfully implemented only when we know what type of XML data we are dealing with, it's average size and structure of general layout and data contained within tags. For example if the tags are followed by a line delimiter like a new line we can read it with fgets in and with minimal effort make sure that no data will be sent to the function that does not end with a end tag. But this require a fair knowledge of the file's preference for storing XML data and tags (and a bit of code between reading data and xml_parse'ing it).
It will save you a headache.

2. Pre Parser Strings and New Line Delimited Data
One important thing to note at this point is that the xml_parse function requires a string variable. You can manipulate the content of any string variable easily as we all know.

A better approach to removing newlines than:

<?php
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
$data = preg_replace("/\n|\r/","",$data); //flarp
if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {...
?>

Above works across all 3 line-delimited text files  (\n, \r, \r\n). But this could potentially (or will most likely) damage or scramble data contained in for example CDATA areas. As far as I am concerned end of line characters should not be used _within_ XML tags. What seems to be the ultimate solution is to pre-parse the loaded data this would require checking the position within the XML document and adding or subtracting (using a in-between fread temporary variable) data based on conditions like: "Is within tag", "Is within CDATA" etc. before fedding it to the parser. This of course opens up a new can of worms (as in parse data for the parser...). (above procedure would take place between fread and xml_parser calls this method would be compatible with the general usage examples on top of the page)

3. The Answer to parsing arbitrary XML and Preprocessor Revisited
You can't just feed any XML document to the parser you constructed and assuming that it will work! You have to know what kind of methods for storing data are used, for example is there a end of line delimited data in the  file ?, Are there any carriage returns in the tags etc... XML files come formatted in different ways some are just a one long string of characters with out any end of line markers others have newlines, carriage returns or both (Microsloth Windows). May or may not contain space and other whitespace between tags. For this reason it is important to what I call Normalize the data before feeding it to the parser. You can perform this with regular expressions or plain old str_replace and concatenation. In many cases this can be done to the file it self sometimes to string data on the fly( as shown in the example above). But I feel it is important to normalize the data before even calling the function to call xml_parse. If you have the ability to access all data before that call you can convert it to what you fell the data should have been in the first place and omit many surprises and expensive regular expression substitution (in a tight spot) while fread'ing the data.
guy at bhaktiandvedanta dot com 27-Sep-2002 12:01
For a simple XML parser you can use this function. It doesn't require any extensions to run.

<?php
// Extracts content from XML tag

function GetElementByName ($xml, $start, $end) {

    global
$pos;
   
$startpos = strpos($xml, $start);
    if (
$startpos === false) {
        return
false;
    }
   
$endpos = strpos($xml, $end);
   
$endpos = $endpos+strlen($end);   
   
$pos = $endpos;
   
$endpos = $endpos-$startpos;
   
$endpos = $endpos - strlen($end);
   
$tag = substr ($xml, $startpos, $endpos);
   
$tag = substr ($tag, strlen($start));

    return
$tag;

}

// Open and read xml file. You can replace this with your xml data.

$file = "data.xml";
$pos = 0;
$Nodes = array();

if (!(
$fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
    die(
"could not open XML input");
}
while (
$getline = fread($fp, 4096)) {
   
$data = $data . $getline;
}

$count = 0;
$pos = 0;

// Goes throw XML file and creates an array of all <XML_TAG> tags.
while ($node = GetElementByName($data, "<XML_TAG>", "</XML_TAG>")) {
   
$Nodes[$count] = $node;
   
$count++;
   
$data = substr($data, $pos);
}

// Gets infomation from tag siblings.
for ($i=0; $i<$count; $i++) {
$code = GetElementByName($Nodes[$i], "<Code>", "</Code>");
$desc = GetElementByName($Nodes[$i], "<Description>", "</Description>");
$price = GetElementByName($Nodes[$i], "<BasePrice>", "</BasePrice>");
}
?>

Hope this helps! :)
Guy Laor
dmarsh dot NO dot SPAM dot PLEASE at spscc dot ctc dot edu 18-Sep-2002 12:27
Some reference code I am working on as "XML Library" of which I am folding it info an object. Notice the use of the DEFINE:

Mainly Example 1 and parts of 2 & 3 re-written as an object:
--- MyXMLWalk.lib.php ---
<?php

if (!defined("PHPXMLWalk")) {
define("PHPXMLWalk",TRUE);

class
XMLWalk {
 var
$p; //short for xml parser;
 
var $e; //short for element stack/array

 
function prl($x,$i=0) {
   
ob_start();
   
print_r($x);
   
$buf=ob_get_contents();
   
ob_end_clean();
    return
join("\n".str_repeat(" ",$i),split("\n",$buf));
  }

 function
XMLWalk() {
 
$this->p = xml_parser_create();
 
$this->e = array();
 
xml_parser_set_option($this->p, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, true);
 
xml_set_element_handler($this->p, array(&$this, "startElement"), array(&$this, "endElement"));
 
xml_set_character_data_handler($this->p, array(&$this, "dataElement"));
 
register_shutdown_function(array(&$this, "free")); // make a destructor
 
}

  function
startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
    if (
count($attrs)>=1) {
     
$x = $this->prl($attrs, $this->e[$parser]+6);
    } else {
     
$x = "";
    }

    print
str_repeat(" ",$this->e[$parser]+0). "$name $x\n";
   
$this->e[$parser]++;
   
$this->e[$parser]++;
  }

  function
dataElement($parser, $data) {
    print
str_repeat(" ",$this->e[$parser]+0). htmlspecialchars($data, ENT_QUOTES) ."\n";
  }

  function
endElement($parser, $name) {
   
$this->e[$parser]--;
   
$this->e[$parser]--;
  }
  function
parse($data, $fp) {
    if (!
xml_parse($this->p, $data, feof($fp))) {
        die(
sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                   
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->p)),
                   
xml_get_current_line_number($this->p)));
    }
  }

  function
free() {
   
xml_parser_free($this->p);
  }

}
// end of class

} // end of define

?>

--- end of file ---

Calling code:
<?php

...

require(
"MyXMLWalk.lib.php");

$file = "x.xml";

$xme = new XMLWalk;

if (!(
$fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
    die(
"could not open XML input");
}

while (
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
 
$xme->parse($data, $fp);
}

...
?>
jon at gettys dot org 14-Aug-2002 01:59
[Editor's note: see also xml_parse_into_struct().]

Very simple routine to convert an XML file into a PHP structure. $obj->xml contains the resulting PHP structure. I would be interested if someone could suggest a cleaner method than the evals I am using.

<?php
$filename
= 'sample.xml';
$obj->tree = '$obj->xml';
$obj->xml = '';

function
startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
    global
$obj;
   
   
// If var already defined, make array
   
eval('$test=isset('.$obj->tree.'->'.$name.');');
    if (
$test) {
      eval(
'$tmp='.$obj->tree.'->'.$name.';');
      eval(
'$arr=is_array('.$obj->tree.'->'.$name.');');
      if (!
$arr) {
        eval(
'unset('.$obj->tree.'->'.$name.');');
        eval(
$obj->tree.'->'.$name.'[0]=$tmp;');
       
$cnt = 1;
      }
      else {
        eval(
'$cnt=count('.$obj->tree.'->'.$name.');');
      }
     
     
$obj->tree .= '->'.$name."[$cnt]";
    }
    else {
     
$obj->tree .= '->'.$name;
    }
    if (
count($attrs)) {
        eval(
$obj->tree.'->attr=$attrs;');
    }
}

function
endElement($parser, $name) {
    global
$obj;
   
// Strip off last ->
   
for($a=strlen($obj->tree);$a>0;$a--) {
        if (
substr($obj->tree, $a, 2) == '->') {
           
$obj->tree = substr($obj->tree, 0, $a);
            break;
        }
    }
}

function
characterData($parser, $data) {
    global
$obj;

    eval(
$obj->tree.'->data=\''.$data.'\';');
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!(
$fp = fopen($filename, "r"))) {
    die(
"could not open XML input");
}

while (
$data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
    if (!
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
        die(
sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                   
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                   
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
    }
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
print_r($obj->xml);
return
0;

?>
hans dot schneider at bbdo-interone dot de 24-Jan-2002 08:43
I had to TRIM the data when I passed one large String containig a wellformed XML-File to xml_parse. The String was read by CURL, which aparently put a BLANK at the end of the String. This BLANK produced a "XML not wellformed"-Error in xml_parse!
sam at cwa dot co dot nz 28-Sep-2000 07:39
I've discovered some unusual behaviour in this API when ampersand entities are parsed in cdata; for some reason the parser breaks up the section around the entities, and calls the handler repeated times for each of the sections. If you don't allow for this oddity and you are trying to put the cdata into a variable, only the last part will be stored.

You can get around this with a line like:

$foo .= $cdata;

If the handler is called several times from the same tag, it will append them, rather than rewriting the variable each time. If the entire cdata section is returned, it doesn't matter.

May happen for other entities, but I haven't investigated.

Took me a while to figure out what was happening; hope this saves someone else the trouble.
Daniel dot Rendall at btinternet dot com 07-Jul-1999 10:21
When using the XML parser, make sure you're not using the magic quotes option (e.g. use set_magic_quotes_runtime(0) if it's not the compiled default), otherwise you'll get 'not well-formed' errors when dealing with tags with attributes set in them.

 
show source | credits | sitemap | contact | advertising | mirror sites