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Posted by Jason on 11/24/52 11:53
First things first, let me say that I couldn't decide whether to post
this to the PHP ng, or to an XML ng. I know from experience that you
guys know what you're talking about, though, and all of the questions
mean "how to do this in PHP," so I hope I picked the right one ;-)
For about a year, I've been importing Yahoo News headlines into my site
via their RSS feed. But I would much rather import Google News
headlines because I can make them specific to my location. The problem
is that their RSS feed includes HTML, and the script I use can't figure
it out.
Here's an example tag from their most recent feed:
<description><br><table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2
cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top><a
href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.raleighchronicle.com/2006072105.html&cid=1108150860&ei=hUzBRO_JMpe2aInH4PsB">Truck
Driver Wins $100,000 In Lottery; <b>NC</b> Powerball
Winners</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Raleigh
Chronicle, NC -</font> <nobr>2 hours
ago</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>REIDSVILLE -- According to the
<b>NC</b> Lottery Commission, when Dennis Mebane collected his prize
this week from a winning $100,000 instant scratch-off ticket, he
<b>...</b> </font><br></table></description>
The XML tag is <description>, but the script I use to parse it
(rss2array, a cookie-cutter script that I downloaded) can't
differentiate between <description> and <table>. Usually, I would call
<description> by using the variable $rss['items'][$i]['description']
(where $i is the index counter), but with this output I would have to
do something like
$rss['items'][$i]['description']['table'><'tr'><'td'><'b><'font'>...
So I guess I really have 2 questions:
1. Is there a way to strip HTML completely out of the tag? Or better
yet, to make rss2array read the HTML as actual HTML instead of XML
tags?
2. If not, is there a better way to read the XML than through the use
of rss2array? I'm a fairly experienced coder, but don't really use XML
often enough to have a good grasp of the logic.
TIA,
Jason
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