xml parsing help

[Anon]

Hi,

I am facing a xml parsing problem. I want to get the value of the attributes like feature_name and feature_value etc from below example.

<product product_id="258930" product_name="Sakura Taisen" category="Games/Amusement" plaform="Dreamcast" version="" sku="">
<spec product_id="258930" element_id="2594286"></spec>
<feature feature_id="6997" feature_name="PublisherID" feature_value="13129"></feature>
<feature feature_id="6999" feature_name="Approximate Release Date Text" feature_value="May 2000"></feature>
<feature feature_id="7000" feature_name="Approximate Release Date" feature_value="958363200"></feature>
<feature feature_id="7004" feature_name="Boxshot Path" feature_value="http://www.zdnet.com/gamespot/images/"></feature>
<feature feature_id="7005" feature_name="Genre" feature_value="Simulation"></feature>
<feature feature_id="9400" feature_name="Gameplay Score (1-10)" feature_value="7"></feature>
<feature feature_id="9401" feature_name="Graphics Score (1-10)" feature_value="7"></feature>
<feature feature_id="9402" feature_name="Sound Score (1-10)" feature_value="8"></feature>
<feature feature_id="9403" feature_name="Value Score (1-10)" feature_value="6"></feature>
<feature feature_id="9404" feature_name="Reviewer's Tilt Score (1-10)" feature_value="9"></feature>
<feature feature_id="9406" feature_name="Difficulty" feature_value="Easy"></feature>
<feature feature_id="9407" feature_name="Learning Curve" feature_value="about a half-hour"></feature>
</product>

Please help me.

Thanks,
Saif Slatewala

[Anon]

Check out the expat parser. All the info you need is in the PHP docs.

If you just want to put them into a database you can just go through without storing any tree information and pull out "feature_id" and "feature_name" every time you hit a "feature" element.

In start_element() you'll want something like

function start_element($parser, $name, $attrs) {
if($name == "feature") {
if ( isset($attrs("feature_id"))
&& isset($attrs("feature_name")) ) {

$eleFeatures[$attrs("feature_id")] = $attrs("feature_name");
}

}

Or something like that.