On Dec 3, 9:32=A0am, Captain Paralytic <paul_laut...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 3 Dec, 15:26, Mechphisto <mechphi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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> > On Dec 2, 9:30=A0am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
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> > > 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 =
and
> > > > 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 intoPHP. 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.

Tried the SimpleXML method on the new server:
Holy moly! It cut 58, yes 58, lines of code down to 6!!
SimpleXML rocks!