Preg-patterns

[Anon]

Hi!

I've got some trouble and questions about preg-patterns. I'me trying to build two simple functions to get the name and attributes from a tag ( XML or HTML, doesn't matter ).

I've tried this:

function getName ( $tag ) {
preg_match_all ( "|<([^{<|\040|>].*?)>|is",} $tag, $out );
return $out[ 1 ][ 0 ];
}

fuction getAttributes ( $tag ) {
preg_match_all ( "|<([^{<|>].*?)>|is",} $tag, $out );
$arr = explode ( " ", $out[ 1 ][ 0 ] );

 for ( $i = 1; $i < count ( $arr ); $i++ ) {
      $currentArr = explode ( "=", $arr[ $i ] );
      $resultArr[] = $currentArr[ 0 ];
 }
 return $resultArr;

}

Anyone with a smart tip? I've be really greatful. :-)
Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Bjornie

[tomhath]

This is what xml parsers are for. Is there some reason you are not using expat?

[Anon]

Yes, of course there is. :-)

The server for my scripts is not compiled with any XML-parsers, and I do not want any outer-class. I want to write my own functions. :-)