Parsing with PHP

The PHP engine comes with built-in functions to enable XML parsing using expat library written by James Clark.

These functions allow us to create our own XML parser. The XML functions we will use (linked to their php manual references) are :

• xml_parser_create()
• xml_set_element_handler()
• xml_set_character_data_handler()
• xml_parse()
• xml_parser_free()
• xml_error_string()
• xml_get_error_code()
• xml_get_current_line_number()

Other (non xml) PHP function that we will use are :

• fopen()
• fread()
• feof()
• eregi_replace()