On Monday, October 15, 2007 at 7:50:17 PM UTC+2, NC wrote:
> On Oct 15, 1:23 am, matte...@mattelau.net wrote:
> >
> > Here is an XML file I'd like to parse with php.
> > It's a mozilla install.rdf file.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <RDF:RDF xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"
> > xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#"
> > xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
> > <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:install-manifest"
> > em:id="id1"
> > em:name="name1"
> > em:version="v1"
> > em:creator="creator1"
> > em:description="desc1"
> > em:homepageURL="home1"
> > em:updateURL="update1"
> > em:iconURL="icon1">
> > <em:targetApplication RDF:resource="rdf:#$b0tbb"/>
> > </RDF:Description>
> > <RDF:Description RDF:about="rdf:#$b0tbb"
> > em:id="id2"
> > em:minVersion="2.0"
> > em:maxVersion="2.0.0.*" />
> > </RDF:RDF>
> >
> > How would you do that ?
> > ( I'd like for example, to get the version associated with id1 )
> You wouldn't. Not with SimpleXML anyway. SimpleXML takes an XML file
> or string and converts it into an object. In RDF, however, XML
> entities' names contain colons, which are illegal in PHP variable
> names. You could try and replace colons with underscores, so you
> would get something like this:
> $RDF = file_get_contents('install.rdf');
> $RDF = str_replace('RDF:', 'RDF_', $RDF);
> $RDF = str_replace('em:', 'em_', $RDF);
> $XML = simplexml_load_string($RDF);
> foreach ($XML->RDF_Description as $num => $description) {
> $attributes = $description->attributes();
> if (isset($attributes['em_id'])) {
> echo "ID = {$attributes['em_id']}; version =
> {$attributes['em_version']}";
> }
> }
> Best regards,
> NC
and it's easily parsed !! :) Thank you!