SimpleXML is a
PHP extension that allows users to easily manipulate/use
XML data. It was introduced in PHP 5 as an
object oriented approach to the XML
DOM Dom or DOM may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Dom (given name), including fictional characters
* Dom (surname)
* Dom La Nena (born 1989), stage name of Brazilian-born cellist, singer and songwriter Dominique Pinto
* Dom people, an et ...
providing an object that can be processed with normal property selectors and array iterators. It represents an easy way of getting an element's attributes and textual content if you know the XML document's structure or layout.
Compared to DOM or the
Expat parser, SimpleXML takes a fewer lines of code to read text data from an element.
Functions
* addAttribute()
* addChild()
* asXML()
* attributes()
* children()
* __construct()
* getDocNamespaces()
* getName()
* getNamespaces()
* registerXPathNamespace()
* xpath()
* simplexml_import_dom
* simplexml_load_file
* simplexml_load_string
Error handling
It is possible to suppress all XML errors when loading the document and then iterate over the errors.
References
External links
PHP.net's SimpleXML manualAIP Conf. Proc. 1497, pp. 395-401; Speed up of XML parsers with PHP language implementationdevshed SimpleXML Tutorial
PHP software
XML parsers
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