Re: Parsing XML

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Ashley Sheridan wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 10:15 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
>> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Parsing XML is best done with XSL - if that's out of the question,
>> you're in for a difficult time.
>> 
>> 
>> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>> 
>> 
> XSL will only allow me to convert it into a different document format,
> which is not what I want as I need to keep a local copy of information
> in a database for searching and sorting purposes. Nathans class allows
> me to have the entire document put into an array tree, which is fine
> for what I need so far.

That's cool, but XSL is still the more appropriate tool IMO.  It does
exactly what you need - it parses and validates the XML document,
allows you to extract the bits you need and in virtually any format you
need - which could be a text document with SQL statements for piping to
mysql. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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