On 3 Dec, 15:26, Mechphisto <mechphi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 9:30=A0am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> > Mechphisto wrote:
> > > I'm trying to write aPHPscript that will grab the info from an XML
> > > file, and parse and sort the data into their own variables.
> > > Can someone point me a direction for information?
> > > Here's what I have so far. The following script will grab ALL data in
> > > the file and simply make each one bold and separated by a break.
> > > I want to be able to dump the contents of message1 into say $data1 an=
d
> > > message2 into $data2, etc.
> > > Does that make sense?
>
> > Have you considered to use SimpleXml or DOM instead? Those APIs allow
> > you to work with XML at a higher level than the xml_parser API.
>
> Thanks, but unfortunately, I'm on a shared server host and don't have
> control over
> what libraries can be installed into PHP. So, I'm kind of stuck with
> whatever solution is default built-in PHP5.

From the manual:
Installation

The SimpleXML extension is enabled by default.