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Posted by Andy Hassall on 02/28/06 02:13
On 27 Feb 2006 15:45:05 -0800, "Joshua Morgan" <joshua.morgan@gmail.com> wrote:
>I want to create my own XML parser that is completely independent of
>PHP version (i want it to run on both PHP 4 and 5), and to also not
>require any dependencies (so that the user DOESN'T have to compile php
>with --with-xml).
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction as to how I can go about
>this?
If you really want to write one yourself, perhaps for fun (?!) then:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/
And then you probably want to look up "DOM" and "SAX" parsers for the two main
approaches to parsing XML.
Alternatively you can avoid re-inventing the wheel:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pure+php+xml+parser
(Is it really so much of a hardship to compile with XML support though? PHP4
even comes with a bundled copy of the expat library, and PHP5 is a bit fiddly
to compile _without_ XML support, IIRC, since some other extensions rely on it)
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