xml parsing with php

meghatronic · 10 Jul 2007 at 15:11

I am using the following to quickly parse some xml, however, there is more than one author.... and I'm not sure how to fix this.

xml:

Code:

  <Item Name="Author" Type="String">Barrett AJ</Item> 
  <Item Name="Author" Type="String">Rawlings ND</Item>

php:

Code:

$data = implode("", file($url)); 
preg_match_all ("/<DocSum>([^`]*?)<\/DocSum>/", $data, $matches);
foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
preg_match ("/<Item Name=\"Author\" Type=\"String\">([^`]*?)<\/Item>/", $match, $authors);
	  }
$authors = implode(", ", $authors);
echo "authors: " . $authors;

output:

Code:

authors: Barrett AJ, Barrett AJ

psyr33n · 10 Jul 2007 at 15:46

Use SimpleXML if it's available to you. If not, another xml parsing lib.

Shoseki · 10 Jul 2007 at 20:10

jdickerson said:

php:

Code:

$data = implode("", file($url)); 
preg_match_all ("/<DocSum>([^`]*?)<\/DocSum>/", $data, $matches);
foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
preg_match ("/<Item Name=\"Author\" Type=\"String\">([^`]*?)<\/Item>/", $match, $authors);
	  }
$authors = implode(", ", $authors);
echo "authors: " . $authors;

foreach ($matches[0] as $match) should be

foreach ($matches as $match) ?

psyr33n · 10 Jul 2007 at 20:13

^ No, you've got the wrong end of the stick.

meghatronic · 10 Jul 2007 at 20:17

psyr33n said:
^ No, you've got the wrong end of the stick.

I sorted it temporarily just using preg match all, looking at SimpleXML for long term solution. It was that I used before - cheers