XML and PHP

PHP and the DOM

PHP 4.0 comes with a primitive, though effective, implementation of the DOM, based on the libxml library. Created by Daniel Veillard, libxml (http://www.xmlsoft.org/) is a modular, standards-compliant C library that provides XML parsing capabilities to the GNOME project (http://www.gnome.org/).

If you’re using a stock PHP binary, it’s quite likely that you’ll need to recompile PHP to add support for this library to your PHP build. (Detailed instructions for accomplishing this are available in Appendix A, “Recompiling PHP to Add XML Support.”)

Under Construction If you’re planning on using PHP’s DOM extension in your development activities, be warned that this extension is still under development and is, therefore, subject to ...