XML...Good SAX abstraction class?

Moonglobe

hi all, i tred learning XSLT and even got somewhere with it, but my host doesnt have teh extension installed and i dont want to bother them because their running my site for free for me....... anyway, i was wondering if anyone could recommend a good abstraction class? ive looked all over every site i can find but i really dont have time to download 7 different classes all claiming to do the same thing.

thx
moon

daveyboy

what do you mean "abstraction class"?

if you mean a way to access XML data, i would recommend xpath. it's very easy to use, but a little slow.

you will have to be more specific about your problem, if you need more than that.

Moonglobe

sorry, im just really confused as to the best way to adress the data.once i get it into a form i can use i can do anything whit it, but idont know how to store it, and of course thats done at parse time. i cant use DOMXML because my host doesnt have that either. im just really confused as to how to go about this.... i look all over but i can't find anything that seems good, and i dont have time to download 7+ scripts taht are supposed to do the same thing, so i was just wondering if anyone here has ever had any good experience with a certain xml-parsing package.

[edit]i learned XPath for work with XSLT, how would i use it with PHP?[/edit]

daveyboy

there are other xpath extensions. of course, if it is written in PHP it is SLOW.

try: phpxpath

generally, when i need to parse data from XML and export it back, i write a class that can both parse in the file and print it back out. if you are building a tree from the data anyway, you can easily turn this back to XML.

personally, i gave up on XML for websites some time ago. MySQL is 15 times quicker and far, far easier to use as a programmer. if XML is a necessity, export it!

if you only need the data for PHP you would be better off with serialize(). it is faster than parsing/generating XML and far, far easier.

Moonglobe

the only reason im trying to use XML is to keep my presentation out of my logic-- i know, i know, such a commercial-sounding goal but the onl reason im trying in XML is because of a speach jimson gave a while ago (and the fact that i was trying to learn XSLT at the time).

so thanx ill try that out but how slow is slow? several seconds? because that would be unacceptable.....

thx
moon