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xml_parser_create

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xml_parser_create — 建立一个 XML 解析器

描述

resource xml_parser_create ([ string $encoding ] )

函数 xml_parser_create() 建立一个新的 XML 解析器并返回可被其它 XML 函数使用的资源句柄。

可选参数 encoding 在 PHP 4 中用来指定要被解析的 XML 输入的字符编码方式。PHP 5 开始，自动侦测输入的 XML 的编码，因此 encoding 参数仅用来指定解析后输出数据的编码。在 PHP 4 总，默认输出的编码与输入数据的编码是相同的。如果传递了空字符串，解析器会尝试搜索头 3 或 4 个字节以确定文档的编码。在 PHP 5.0.0 和 5.0.1 总，默认输出的字符编码是 ISO-8859-1，而 PHP 5.0.2 及以上版本是 UTF-8。解析器支持的编码有 ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 和 US-ASCII。

请参阅函数 xml_parser_create_ns() 和 xml_parser_free()。

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marek995 at seznam dot cz (24-Sep-2010 07:46)

I created a function, which combines xml_paresr_create and all functions around.

<?php
function html_parse($file)
     {
      $array = str_split($file, 1);
      $count = false;
      $text = "";
      $end = false;
      foreach($array as $temp)
       {
        switch($temp)
         {
          case "<":
           between($text);
           $text = "";
           $count = true;
           $end = false;
           break;
          case ">":
           if($end == true) {end_tag($text);}
           else {start_tag($text);}
           $text = "";
           break;
          case "/":
           if($count == true) {$end = true;}
           else {$text = $text . "/";}
           break;
          default:
           $count = false;
           $text = $text . $temp;
         }
       }
     }
?>
The input value is a string.
It calls functions start_tag() , between() and end_tag() just like the original xml parser.

But it has a few differences:
  - It does NOT check the code. Just resends values to that three functions, no matter, if they are right
  - It works with parameters. For example: from tag <sth b="42"> sends sth b="42"
  - It works wit diacritics. The original parser sometimes wrapped the text before the first diacritics appearance.
  - Works with all encoding. If the input is UTF-8, the output will be UTF-8 too
  - It works with strings. Not with file pointers.
  - No "Reserved XML name" error
  - No doctype needed
  - It does not work with commentaries, notes, programming instructions etc. Just the tags

definition of the handling functions is:

<?php
function between($stuff) {}
?>

No other attributes

juanhdv at NOSPAM dot divvol dot org (05-Dec-2007 08:08)

In PHP 5, when including in your xml file the definition '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>',   I'd also recommend adding the option below:
 
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, "ISO-8859-1").

It works fine!

If your enconding is 'UTF-8', just replace 'ISO-8859-1'.

(19-Apr-2006 03:42)

I'd also recommend adding the option below
xml_parser_set_option($parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,1);

Tobbe (25-May-2005 02:01)

The above "XML to array" code does not work properly if you have several tags on the same level and with the same name, example:

<currenterrors>
<error>
<description>This is a real error...</description>
</error>
<error>
<description>This is a second error...</description>
</error>
<error>
<description>Lots of errors today...</description>
</error>
<error>
<description>This is the last error...</description>
</error>
</currenterrors>

It will then only display the first <error>-tag.
In this case you will need to number the tags automatically or maybe have several arrays for each new element.

dma05 at web dot de (27-Apr-2005 10:54)

xml_parser_create () on php5 sometimes detects the wrong input format for me -- for example, sometimes when i try to parse data that has been fetched from a databse by my script and that only contains a handful of special ISO-8859-1 characters, it seems to think the input was something else and xml_parse() chokes on things like umlauts.

the only reason i was able to figure out so far would be that -- unlike my data files -- the xml data generated by my script doesn't contain the <?xml  [...] encoding="..." ?> definition. every data source with that definition seemed just fine; it's kinda odd that it worked *sometimes* without it *shrugs*.
no matter what the reason, using utf8_encode () on the string made it work, and prepending '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>' worked as well.

this problem shouldn't occur in php4, since there you would specify the input encoding along with the output encoding.

php at stock-consulting dot com (21-Feb-2005 10:47)

Even though I passed "UTF-8" as encoding type PHP (Version 4.3.3) did *not* treat the input file as UTF-8. The input file was missing the BOM header bytes (which may indeed be omitted, according to RFC3629...but things are a bit unclear there. The RFC seems to make mere recommendations concering the BOM header). If you want to sure that PHP treats an UTF-8 encoded file correctly, make sure that it begins with the corresponding 3 byte BOM header (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF)

jcalvert at gmx dot net (03-Apr-2004 06:39)

To maintain compatibility between PHP4 and PHP5 you should always pass a string argument to this function. PHP4 autodetects the format of the input if you leave it out whereas PHP5 will assume the format to be ISO-8859-1 (and choke on the byte order marker of UTF-8 files).

Calling the function as <?php $res = xml_parser_create('') ?> will cause both versions of PHP to autodetect the format.

mmustafa at vsnl dot com (05-Jan-2004 06:00)

thought I'd share this small piece of PHP code that prepares a proper array from XML Data
(uses xml_parse_into_struct to get a raw array)
features : 1) can easily adjust to multiple levels 2) simple.

<code>

$file = "data.xml";
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

if (!($fp = fopen($file, "r"))) {
    die("could not open XML input");
}

$data = fread($fp, filesize($file));
fclose($fp);
xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $data, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

$params = array();
$level = array();
foreach ($vals as $xml_elem) {
  if ($xml_elem['type'] == 'open') {
    if (array_key_exists('attributes',$xml_elem)) {
      list($level[$xml_elem['level']],$extra) = array_values($xml_elem['attributes']);
    } else {
      $level[$xml_elem['level']] = $xml_elem['tag'];
    }
  }
  if ($xml_elem['type'] == 'complete') {
    $start_level = 1;
    $php_stmt = '$params';
    while($start_level < $xml_elem['level']) {
      $php_stmt .= '[$level['.$start_level.']]';
      $start_level++;
    }
    $php_stmt .= '[$xml_elem[\'tag\']] = $xml_elem[\'value\'];';
    eval($php_stmt);
  }
}

echo "<pre>";
print_r ($params);
echo "</pre>";

</code>

Example :
I/P XML ...

<country id="ZZ">
<name>My Land</name>
<location>15E</location>
<area>40000</area>

    <state1>
<name>Hi State</name>
<area>1000</area>
<population>2000</population>

    <city1>
<location>13E</location>
<population>500</population>
<area>500</area>
</city1>

    <city2>
<location>13E</location>
<population>500</population>
<area>5000</area>
</city2>
</state1>

    <state2>
<name>Low State</name>
<area>3000</area>
<population>20000</population>

    <city1>
<location>15E</location>
<population>5000</population>
<area>1500</area>
</city1>
</state2>
</country>

O/P Array :
Array
(
    [ZZ] => Array
        (
            [NAME] => My Land
            [LOCATION] => 15E
            [AREA] => 40000
            [STATE1] => Array
                (
                    [NAME] => Hi State
                    [AREA] => 1000
                    [POPULATION] => 2000
                    [CITY1] => Array
                        (
                            [LOCATION] => 13E
                            [POPULATION] => 500
                            [AREA] => 500
                        )

                    [CITY2] => Array
                        (
                            [LOCATION] => 13E
                            [POPULATION] => 500
                            [AREA] => 5000
                        )

                )

            [STATE2] => Array
                (
                    [NAME] => Low State
                    [AREA] => 3000
                    [POPULATION] => 20000
                    [CITY1] => Array
                        (
                            [LOCATION] => 15E
                            [POPULATION] => 5000
                            [AREA] => 1500
                        )

                )

        )

)