Posted by Jason Barnett on 05/27/05 19:48

Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I recently decided to switch to xml for the configuration of our programs.
>
> I am now looking for a good way to handle that xml data.
>
> Basically, what I am looking for is a functionality where I say
>
> Get tag x with attribute1=y, attribute2=z,..., read its contents and put it in
> an associative array.
>

If you want that much granular detail then you might want to use XPATH.
The syntax is obviously a little different than PCRE, but once you
understand it you'll find it's much more efficient (and easier) than
building monstrously large PCRE's.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domxpath-query.php
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev

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