XML parsing Problem?

phpsharma

Hi,

I have a site which using a RSS feed from othersite. I am quite successful in parsing them. I have a problem when itried to parse a xml file to parse display. The file is located here.

Please give me some ideas to parse this Xml file?

http://www.bestcalls.com/raw/Upcoming.xml

Thanks,
sharma

tsinka

Hi,

which problem do you have exactly ?

Thomas

phpsharma

Hi ,

Thanks for your reply. How can I show The Xml data on my site as it is showing on

http://www.bestcalls.com/

I would like to show the top box (Upcoming conference calls)from the bestcalls site home page..on my home site..

Thanks,
sharma

Norman_Graham

Hi Sharma

I'm sure Thomas will be able to help you. However, show us your current code for parsing RSS. It's usually just a case of copying and adjusting.

Norm

phpsharma

Hi Norman,

I am using the code which has been copied from Other post here.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10264579&highlight=xml+parsing ...you are here tooo........

That is only parsing rss feeds having
< ITEM>
<title></title>
<description></description>
some common xml elements
</ITEM>

But the xml file given by best call is a different element structure and I am unable to move forward.

Thanks,
sharma

Norman_Graham

Hi Sharma

I didn't realize you were looking at that RSS thing I did ages ago. Basically you just replace the elements in the RSS parser with the elements in the XML you want to use. The only thing you have to alter is the formatting behaviour.

Is there some other difficulty you're having?

Norm

phpsharma

Hi Norman,

Thanks for your time. The parsing that I am looking for xml is wrong. The actual parsing is WDDX. I figure out the problem and worked with the help of this tutorial.

The tutorial is giving straight code to solve problem by giving WDDX and PHP..
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=29298&seqNum=3

Thanks,
sharma

Norman_Graham

Hi Sharma

Well, OK, but WDDX is just a form of XML. It's a tree of tags, just like any other XML. What the WDDX package does is no different from parsing RSS or WSDL or any other form of XML. You look for the tags you want and vacuum up the content until you get to the end tag. You then tell PHP what to do with the content, e.g. stick it in an array or convert it straight to HTML or whatever.

The WDDX module is doing exactly that - it's just written the code for you already and given you a single command. If you want to be completely flexible so that you can parse any kind of XML, it's good to know how the code actually works. You may also find the new simpleXML module in PHP5 useful. If you really want to do cool things with XML, you should also look into XSLT. XSLT isn't easy, but it's powerful and lets you do what you want with any dialect of XML.

HTH

Norm

phpsharma

Hi Norm,

You are absolutely right. I will try following your suggestions in implementing XML with PHP.

Thanks,
sharma