Using
PHP XML library to process XML documents
PHP
XML libraries are available to process the XML documents and it is easy
to process the XML documents if you are using it. By using the PHP XML
library you can parse the XML file to create PHP data structures.
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With
these libraries in hand you can create your own parser to parse the
XML documents. The PHP XML libraries are used for data oriented XML
files that have only data in it. SimpleXML in PHP 5 can be used to parse
XML files and it is also a nice one to handle XML files.
To
handle document oriented XML files you have to use XML-RPC PHP library
since it might contain mixed content apart from data. An html file is
an example of a mixed content XML file. You are forced to use object
orientation when you use an XML-RPC library. This library uses only
native PHP data types.
