SAX parser in action : SAX « XML « PHP






  1. PHP
  2. XML
  3. SAX

SAX parser in action

<?
function start_element($parser, $element_name, $element_attrs) {
  switch ($element_name) {
    case 'KEYWORDS':
       echo '<h1>Keywords</h1><ul>';
       break;
    case 'KEYWORD':
       echo '<li>';
       break;
  }
}

function end_element($parser, $element_name) {
  switch ($element_name) {
    case 'KEYWORDS':
       echo '</ul>';
       break;
    case 'KEYWORD':
       echo '</li>';
       break;
  }
}


function character_data($parser, $data) {
  echo htmlentities($data);
}

$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($parser, 'start_element', 'end_element');
xml_set_character_data_handler($parser, 'character_data');

$fp = fopen('keyword-data.xml', 'r')
    or die ("Cannot open keyword-data.xml!");
    
    
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
  xml_parse($parser, $data, feof($fp)) or 
    die(sprintf('XML ERROR: %s at line %d',
        xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)),
        xml_get_current_line_number($parser)));
}


xml_parser_free($parser);    
?>


<!-- keyword-data.xml
<keywords>
  <keyword>XML</keyword>
  <keyword>PHP</keyword>
  <keyword>Perl</keyword>
  <keyword>JavaScript</keyword>
  <keyword>ASP</keyword>
</keywords>
-->








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