Simple XML tag extraction?

GordonCopestake

Hi folks,
I'm fairly new at XML and im trying to find a simple way to extact the information from an XML file.

My xml is fairly simplistic also, something like this:

<name>
 <fname>Gordon</fname>
 <sname>Copestake</sname>
</name>

etc

I would like my php to be able to do something like:

<?php

$xmlfile="test.xml";

xml_echo <fname>;
xml_echo <lname>;

?>

obviously this isn't real code, but this is the sort of functionality i want. Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks and regards

Gordon Copestake

dream_scape

Gordon, what PHP version are you running?

With PHP 5 there are several easy ways to work with XML such as the improved [man]DOM[/man] extension, [man]SimpleXML[/man], [man]XMLReader[/man], etc.

With PHP 4, it is not quite so easy, but can be made easier if your PHP is compiled with the PHP 4 DOM XML extension. Otherwise with PHP 4, you'll have to create your own XML parser or use one someone else has created. When I work with PHP 4 & XML, for simple & generic parsing, I sometimes use XMLize from Hans Anderson.

GordonCopestake

Unfortunatly the server is PHP4, but i MIGHT be able to get them to change it, but it might break more things than it fixes :/

I know that it's installed with expat if that makes any difference.

I'll take a look at XMLize

GordonCopestake

XMLize looks ideal. Is there any more documentation however as the offical site seems a little slim! Are there any examples other than the one given?