XML and PHP

An Alternative PHP/DOM Implementation: eZXML

A DOM parser written in PHP, the eZXML class provides a primitive, though effective, alternative to PHP’s native DOM extension. Developed as part of a larger publishing system by eZ Systems, it is freely available under the GPL from http://developer.ez.no/.

Version Control All the examples in this section use version 1.0.3 of the eZXML class.

The eZXML class works in much the same way as PHP’s native DOM library, creating a series of nested objects to represent the structure of an XML document. Each of these objects exposes standard properties, which can be used to traverse the object tree; and access specific elements, attributes, or data. In order to illustrate how this works, consider the simple ...