PHP/XML: using & parsing namespaces

jkeppens

Hi all,

I want to use namespaces in xml and parse them in PHP. Anyone know good documentation/sites/examples about this? I've googled a bit, but haven't really found what I was looking for.

I'll show what I want to do:

...
<table border="0">
   <JK:IsLoggedIn>
   <tr>
      <td>Welcome <JK:variable name="username" /></td>
   </tr>
   </JK:IsLoggedIn>
   <JK:IsNotLoggedIn>
   <form name="login" action="whatever" method="post">
   <tr>
      <td>Username</td><td><input type="text" name="username"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>password</td><td><input type="password" name="password"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td></td><td><input type="submit"></td>
   </tr>
   </form>
   </JK:IsNotLoggedIn>
</table>
...

When this is uploaded a php file is generated based on that XML where the tags of the JK namespace will perform some special function (for example: display a variable, check if customer is logged in, etc...)

bubblenut

Seems like a rather odd way of tackling the problem, interesting though. It may be an idea to go the route of an accepted standard like XSL. With a little logic juggling you'll be able to get the same effect but you'll also find a lot more in the way of tools for the job. Below are a couple of links re XSL

W3C's XSL pages
W3Schools XSL Tutorial
PEAR's XSLT Package

HTH
Bubble

jkeppens

it's for a site framework I'm writing where the users can write their own layout for certain scriptlets (pieces of code pasted in the page). Since I don't want them to mess with PHP, I wanted a somewhat 'userfriendly' way. Basically the upload the piece of code in my previous mail. I parse it and store it as php. So I won't be doing any parsing in runtime, but before.