XML and PHP

patTemplate and patXMLRenderer

patTemplate is a rendering engine that attempts to simplify web application development by using a template-based framework to separate presentation information from data. It does this by using simple templates to hold presentation semantics—formatting, layout, alignment, and so on—and inserting placeholders in these templates to represent data elements. When these templates are rendered by the engine, the placeholders embedded within them are replaced by actual data, which may be dynamically retrieved from a database, a text file, or any other data source.

patXMLRenderer builds on the functionality offered by patTemplate, adding an XML parser to the mix. This allows data encoded in XML to be retrieved and used ...