xml problem....

[thesonglessbird]

Im currently parsing an xml news feed for a website. The problem I have is that when i parse the actual news text (cdata) to a php variable, a large chunk of the beginning is missing as though it has been cropped.

Is this because there is too much text? I didn't think there was a size limit...

[TheDefender]

Post some code and an example feed where this problem is occurring, so we can see what's going on.

[thesonglessbird]

$article = array();
$newscount = 0;
$flag= '';

function opening_element($parser, $element, $attributes) {
    // opening XML element callback function

  global $article;
  global $newscount;
  global $flag;

  if($element == "Article"){
   $article[$newscount]['id'] = $attributes['ID'];
  } else if($element == "Heading"){
   $flag = "heading";
  } else if($element == "Date"){
   $flag = "date";
  } else if($element == "Contents"){
   $flag = "contents";
  }

}

function closing_element($parser, $element) {
    // closing XML element callback function

  global $article;
  global $newscount;
  global $flag;

  if($element == "Article"){
   $newscount++;
  } else if($element == "Heading"){
   $flag = '';
  } else if($element == "Date"){
   $flag = '';
  } else if($element == "Contents"){
   $flag = '';
  }

}

function character_data($parser, $data) {
    // callback function for character data

  global $article;
  global $newscount;
  global $flag;

  if($flag=="heading"){
   $article[$newscount]['heading'] = $data;
  } else if($flag=="date"){
   $article[$newscount]['date'] = $data;
  } else if($flag=="contents"){
   $article[$newscount]['content'] = $data;
  }

}

$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, false);
xml_set_element_handler($parser, 'opening_element', 'closing_element');
xml_set_character_data_handler($parser, 'character_data');

$document = file(news source here);

foreach ($document as $line) {
    xml_parse($parser, $line);
}

xml_parser_free($parser);

If I echo($article[0]['content']) all i get is:

giving educational institutions "a simple blanket immunity".

Mr Collins said the Human Rights Act had had "damaging consequences" since it found its way onto the statute books.

The beginning of the news story is gone...

[TheDefender]

Originally posted by TheDefender
Post some code and an example feed where this problem is occurring, so we can see what's going on.

[thesonglessbird]

Sorry this is work stuff, the feed is something we're paying for so I dont think giving out the URL would go down too well!

Ive half way figured out the problem anyway, theres nothing wrong with the XML functions or the XML file itself, it seems to be PHP arrays.

For example, echoing the news content in the callback function itself will output the whole story, but when added to an array, the problem occurs. I cant find any information anywhere concerning maxiumum size of arrays, im stumped!

[TheDefender]

It shouldn't be a size issue... And besides, if it were a size issue, then it should show the first part, and shop the rest...

I understand about not giving the feed.... Can you at least post the entire article so we can see what you are expecting to see?