XML and PHP

[alrotem]

I'm starting a new project with PHP and XML.
Does anybody knows if I should use the PHP5 new XML capabilities or take the existing functionality from PHP 4.

In php web site they write "XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5"

Do you know of any good book that explain the new XML support in PHP 5?

Thanks,
Achi

[paulsjv]

all i know about xml in php 5 is what i got from the OSCON conference.. the coolest thing about xml (the whole 5 seconds they talked about it) was that in php 5 you just decalre a new xml class and all the tags in the xml doc become a method or some sort.. i'll have to look at my notes again.. but there's the basic idea (i think if i remember correctly)

$xml = new simplexml("xml.doc");

echo $xml->tag1->tag2;

now i'm sure i'm almost wrong and someone should correct me.. but i think it's something like that.. basically what they did is that they made it really easy to parse an xml doc instead of having to write a parser for all your xml docs..

it's very cool...

oh and one more thing.. if you are going to use this in a production enviroment i would say stay away from php 5 since it's still in beat..