Hi,
Parsing XML have been a headache for quit a few programmers, including me ;) . So in this post I will give a very simple approach to achieve it. First let us consider an XML file, "simple.xml" with the following content:
<products>
<product>
<name>iPhone</name>
<currency>$</currency>
<price>199.99</price>
</product>
<product>
<name>Galaxy Tab</name>
<currency>$</currency>
<price>299.99</price>
</product>
</products>
Our motive is to navigate through each product and display their details in a listed format such as:
During such parsing all you have to do is to use getElementsByTagName() function smartly. Here there is only 1 "products" tab but multiple "product" tag. So we need to run the loop on the "product" tag.
Here is how I have had done this. Create another file, "example.php" with the following:
Parsing XML have been a headache for quit a few programmers, including me ;) . So in this post I will give a very simple approach to achieve it. First let us consider an XML file, "simple.xml" with the following content:
<products>
<product>
<name>iPhone</name>
<currency>$</currency>
<price>199.99</price>
</product>
<product>
<name>Galaxy Tab</name>
<currency>$</currency>
<price>299.99</price>
</product>
</products>
Our motive is to navigate through each product and display their details in a listed format such as:
During such parsing all you have to do is to use getElementsByTagName() function smartly. Here there is only 1 "products" tab but multiple "product" tag. So we need to run the loop on the "product" tag.
Here is how I have had done this. Create another file, "example.php" with the following:
