Parse XML not from a file

[danludwig]

There are a lot of great, easy to find ways to use php to parse xml from an external file. What if I want to parse a string for xml content tho? For example:

"<data>
this is a <a href-\"file.ext\">link</a>!
</data>"

The string within the <data> markup might be stored in a database. If I have a site that supports both HTML and Flash, I want the link to appear differently in Flash:

this is a <a href="asfunction:_level0.open,file.ext">link</a>.

So I want to parse the database string using xml to get the markup structure before I convert the link syntax. Any good functions or clases out there for parsing xml from a string -- NOT a file? Thanks!

[Anon]

I'm looking at the xml functions that come with php4,
they do parse only strings.
The file is read, usually in 4K chunks, this string is passed to the xml parser.

So you have to set up the parser the same way as in the examples
hope this helps
stef

PS - found some examples at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

[danludwig]

Yes that helps, but I was looking for pre-built functions. I actually found a good entry in the user comments section at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-set-object.php that parses files or strings. It's a class, not a function tho, and it needed some minor modifications to work right. Thanks!