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XInclude and XPointer – Advanced XML Part 2

Published by Greg Winiarski on December 4, 2008

This is the second part Advanced XML and PHP series. If you haven’t read first part you can find it here: Introduction to XPath in PHP. You may be not interested right now but unfortunately topic of todays article (XPointer and XInclude) are extensions of XPath, so it would be very helpful if you would go thru it right now, i assure you that XPath is very interesting technology and knowing it may benefit somewhere in the future. Continue reading XInclude and XPointer – Advanced XML Part 2

PHP XPath Tutorial – Advanced XML Part 1

Published by Greg Winiarski on December 1, 2008

Few years back when i first read book about XML i could not understand what the hyip was all about, some markup language that allows to store data in well organized way. I also remember parsing XML files in PHP few years back. Whole file was raed using fread() and then programmer had to create some kind of parser to process XML file … completely ridicolous. Sure ActionScript, probably Java and some other languages as well already had classes for parsing XML files, but that was not the case for PHP, so i thought that this is a technology that do not deserve a second look. Continue reading PHP XPath Tutorial – Advanced XML Part 1