> -----Original Message----- > From: Skip Evans [mailto:skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 5:35 PM > To: Jochem Maas > Cc: PHP-General > Subject: Re: Parsing XML with DTD > > Hey Jochem & all, > > Thanks much for this tip. I will check it out. > > A little further reading looks like PEAR provides > some XML and DTD capabilities? Anyone have any > experience with this? > > Also, the reason I asked about the DTD is that > these XML files are really extensive, providing > lots of varied info about literature, history, a > whole ton of topics, so I thought parsing the DTD > will be necessary to know what kinds of data I'm > really looking at. > > I'll check out Jochem's suggestion now, but would > also like to hear if anyone has used PEAR, and > also about the need for the DTD for big, > complicated XML files. > > Would it be helpful if I pasted one of the XML > files to the list? > > Thanks again! > Skip > > > Jochem Maas wrote: > > Skip Evans wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I've been asked if it's possible to parse XML files given a DTD file > >> that describes the elements within it, so I've been looking through > the > >> docs at php.net. > >> > >> So far I've found this: > >> > >> http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php > >> > >> Which has some samples on, but nothing that I see will take a DTD > file > >> and parse the XML accordingly. > > > > use php5 and the DOM extension (not XML and not DOMXML): > > > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php > > > >> I'm thinking something like this is probably possible. > >> > >> I'm still looking through the docs, but if anyone can point me in > the > >> right direction would be appreciated. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Skip > >> > > > > > > -- > Skip Evans > Big Sky Penguin, LLC > 503 S Baldwin St, #1 > Madison, WI 53703 > 608-250-2720 > http://bigskypenguin.com > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Check out PHPenguin, a lightweight and versatile > PHP/MySQL, AJAX & DHTML development framework. > http://phpenguin.bigskypenguin.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php I believe the DTD would only be helpful to you if you are validating the XML stream yourself... If you only need to know what kind of data you are looking at, you can just grab the "doctype" property for the DocumentElement and compare it to a set of (known by you) predefined doctypes... After that, you can implement a walk through the elements of the XML stream knowing what you can expect about it. This will simplify your programming logic, unless there are infinite doctypes for the data source in question. For validation, you can use this http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domdocument-validate.php (only if you are interested in the document being well formed according to the DTD) For identifying the DTD, check the DocumentElement "doctype" property and the "DOMDocumentType" class http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php. Andrés Robinet | Lead Developer | BESTPLACE CORPORATION 5100 Bayview Drive 206, Royal Lauderdale Landings, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 | TEL 954-607-4207 | FAX 954-337-2695 | Email: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | MSN Chat: best@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | SKYPE: bestplace | Web: bestplace.biz | Web: seo-diy.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
