Posted by Toby A Inkster on 07/21/07 15:55

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> If you want to go that far, you can say the same thing about documents
> in your favorite text editor. After all, there is an "intermediate"
> form of the file in memory.

Yes -- but that's likely to be pretty similar to the form of the file on
disk, though perhaps held in memory in a different charset.

The representation of a parsed PHP script in the PHP interpreter's memory
bears little resemblance to the PHP script itself, and is closer to a
compiled program than a block ASCII text.

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Parsing an HTML Table with PEAR's XML_HTTPSax3
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/07/20/html-table-parsing/

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