On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 13:14 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > 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 > > Possibly, but I wouldn't want to trust the end content in such a way; I'd like to check out the values first. All-in-all, I think XSL is not the right tool for the job in this case, but it is A way of doing it. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
