Parsing a HTML/XML style tag

[Anon]

Through the process of a script I have written I end up with a string which is a HTML/XML style tag, eg.

<mycustomtag attr="blah" attr2="blah">

I was wondering if there is any shortcut to parsing this tag into possibly a named array or an object with any attributes that exist in the tag. Such that $mycustomtag->attr == "blah", or something similar.

I thought of using the XML functions (by appending </mycustomtag> onto the end, etc.etc.) but I don't understand that section really 🙂

Barring that, does anyone have (or could write) a script that could do the above? Note that the amount and names of attributes are not fixed, but the tag name and attributes are always lowercase and the values are always enclosed in quotes.

TIA.

[Anon]

Well I guess I rock a bit more than I initially thought. It may be a very hardcoded usage of the XML parser section, but it works. Reply to this if you want me to post more details, but basically I just setup an XML parser with a startElement handler that copies the attribs array out to a global array for me to use.

[eambrose]

I'd love to see it. I'm working on something similar myself.