Use PHP DOM-XML to create and parse XML files

Use PHP DOM-XML to create and parse XML files

<? PHP
/**
* Topic: Create and parse XML files using PHP DOM-XML
* Source: http://www.php.net/domxml
* Reference: http://www.zugeschaut-und-mitgebaut.de/php/extension.domxml.html
* Author: urs@circle.ch, 16-1-2001
*
*/
// Use the PHP DOM-XML to create and parse XML files

// Create an XML document object. Subsequent processing will be performed on this basis.
$ Doc = new_xmldoc ("1.0 ");

// Create a root node and set an attribute
$ Root = $ doc-> add_root ("FAQ ");
$ Root-> setattr ("page", "32 ");

// Subnode
$ One = $ root-> new_child ("Question ","");
// Set attributes for the subnode
$ One-> setattr ("Number", "1 ");
// Question also creates a subnode and assigns a value to it
$ One-> new_child ("text", "1. Where to get libxml-2.0.0? ");
$ One-> new_child ("Answer", "you can download the latest
Release of libxml either as a source archive or
RPM package from http://www.xmlsoft.org.
The current version is libxml2-2.2.1 .");

$ Two = $ root-> new_child ("Question ","");
$ Two-> setattr ("Number", "2 ");
$ Two-> new_child ("text", "2. How to configure PhP4? ");
// Create a node with no direct value assignment
$ Twoone = $ two-> new_child ("Answer ","");
// Assign a value to it separately
$ Twoone-> set_content ("dir is the libxml install directory
(If you just use -- With-dom it ults
To/usr), I needed to use -- With-dom =/usr/local ");

$ Three = $ root-> new_child ("Question ","");
$ Three-> setattr ("Number", "7 ");
$ Three-> new_child ("text", "7. How to Use Dom XML function? ");
$ Three-> new_child ("Answer", "read this document source
A simple example .");

// Output to Browser
Print ("<PRE>". htmlspecialchars ($ doc-> dumpmem (). "</PRE> ");

// Write to file
// Write back to file
$ Fp = fopen ("test_dom.xml", "W + ");
Fwrite ($ FP, $ doc-> dumpmem (), strlen ($ doc-> dumpmem ()));
Fclose ($ FP );

//------------------------------------------------------
// Now use XPath to get content from the XML document

$ Doc = xmldoc (join ("", file ("test_dom.xml ")));
$ CTX = xpath_new_context ($ DOC );

// All objects
$ Foo = xpath_eval ($ CTX, "// child ::*");
Print_r ($ Foo );
Print ("<br/> ");
// Text Node object
$ Foo = xpath_eval ($ CTX, "// text ");
Print_r ($ Foo );
Print ("<br/> ");
// The first text Node object
$ Foo = xpath_eval ($ CTX, "// text [1]");
Print_r ($ Foo );
Print ("<br/> ");
// The second text Node object
$ Foo = xpath_eval ($ CTX, "// text [2]");
Print_r ($ Foo );
Print ("<br/> ");
// The third answer object
$ Foo = xpath_eval ($ CTX, "// Answer [3]");
Print_r ($ Foo );
Print ("<br/> ");

// Type, name, and content of the third text node
$ Foo = xpath_eval ($ CTX, "// text [3]");
$ TMP = $ foo-> nodeset;
Print_r ($ TMP );
Print ("<br/> ");
Print ($ TMP [0]-> type ).";";
Print ($ TMP [0]-> name ).";";
Print ($ TMP [0]-> content );

?>

It should be noted that PHP Dom can only run on PHP php4.0.x + linux

for the phpdom class library, go to http://www.zend.com/downloaddownload