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Regardless of the language, don't use regular expressions to parse XML - you will almost certainly get it wrong. Use an XML parser.

Pavel Minaev 2009-11-17 05:58:08

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you should use simple_xml and xpath if you need to extract a complex set of data.

<?php
$string = <<<XML
<?xml version='1.0'?> 
<document>
 <title>Forty What?</title>
 <from>Joe</from>
 <to>Jane</to>
 <body>
  I know that's the answer -- but what's the question?
 </body>
</document>
XML;

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);

var_dump($xml);
?>

would provide output like this :

SimpleXMLElement Object
(
  [title] => Forty What?
  [from] => Joe
  [to] => Jane
  [body] =>
   I know that's the answer -- but what's the question?
)

so in your case you would just to navigate inside your document really more easy then reg expressions, isn't it?

RageZ 2009-11-17 06:13:17

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