October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
7h 12m
English
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is finally in the mainstream and showing the benefits that the faithful have been spouting since XML's inception. A quick look at XML support in Apache and the Java language should be enough to affirm that XML is here to stay.
PHP has built-in support for XML in the form of an extension. Unlike other extensions, XML is compiled in by default so you should not require any additional configuration to get XML to work. The PHP XML extension uses James Clark's expat library, complete details of which can be found at www.jclark.com/xml/.
A quick look, as in Figure 10-1, at a PHP page containing the phpinfo() function should confirm that XML is enabled in your build of PHP.
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