Don't use regex to parse html or xml. Use a parser.
wheaties
2010-09-22 01:46:05
Can you suggest a parser/code to parse this?
Bob Cavezza
2010-09-22 01:51:07
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.xmlreader.php
sheeks06
2010-09-22 01:55:00
@Bob Cavezza: [Search is your friend =)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292926/robust-mature-html-parser-for-php)
R0MANARMY
2010-09-22 01:55:21
Don't use php so I can't recommend a good parser for you to use. The advise still stands.
wheaties
2010-09-22 01:59:26
@Bob - Take a look here: http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php and here http://www.php.net/manual/en/refs.xml.php
Peter Ajtai
2010-09-22 02:04:53
@R0MANARMY Search is your friend, but not as efficient as someone knowledgeable giving you an answer. :-)
Bob Cavezza
2010-09-22 03:15:38
@Bob Cavezza: How do you think I found it =). I mostly work with .NET.
R0MANARMY
2010-09-22 16:46:34
+1
A:
If you are looking for a solution with the fastest execution speed XmlReader is one of the fastest XML parser. It is a bit harder to use, then other solution such as DOM, but since you want to parse a lot of entry, performance is probably important.
Otherwise DOM is pretty simple to use. You can find a simple example of how to use in this answer I gave on an other question.
If you want to load up your content as a string here's how you do it :
XMLReader
$foo = new XMLReader();
$foo->xml($yourStringHere);
DOMDocument
$foo = new DOMDocument();
$foo->loadHTML($yourStringHere);
HoLyVieR
2010-09-22 03:06:56
To use these xml readers, do I need to change this data into an xml object and then parse the code? or can I parse the xml using this data as a php string?
Bob Cavezza
2010-09-22 03:08:42
Bob Cavezza
2010-09-22 03:13:28
@Bob See my edit for how you can load up your data as a string into both XMLReader and DOMDocument.
HoLyVieR
2010-09-22 03:20:47