On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 20:56 +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've run into a bit of a problem. I need to parse some fairly detailed > > XML files from a remote website. I'm pulling in the remote XML using > > curl, and that bit is working fine. The smaller XML documents were easy > > to parse with regular expressions, as I only needed bit of information > > out of them. > > > > The live server I'm eventually putting this onto only has domxml for > > working with XML. I've been trying to find the pecl extension for this > > to install on my local machine, but the pecl.php.net site is a bit > > nerfed for this extension (I'm getting a file not found error message.) > > > > Do any of you have a copy of this extension, or failing that, a > > suggestion of how I can parse XML files without having to install > > anything on the remote server, as I do not have that level off access to > > it. > > > > Thanks > > Ash > > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > standard response which has helped a few recently :p > > "you could give this a go if you like (one i made earlier): > http://programphp.com/xmlparser.phps - class at the top, usage at the > bottom." > I've started using DOMDocument for this (I bypassed your code for the moment as it uses regular expressions, which were a speed bottleneck with my approach) but I can't find any proper documentation on it online. My efforts so far have resulted in a lot of errors which are nigh on impossible to debug. I've used the dom class in javascript without problems now, and it seems to look similar, but it's all going wrong! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
