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File: extract_valid_xml_data.php
Role: Example script
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Description: Example of how to validate and extract data from a XML document
Class: Generic XML parser class
Arbitrary XML parser.
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Date: 12 years ago
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<?php
/*
 * extract_valid_xml_data.php
 *
 * @(#) $Id: extract_valid_xml_data.php,v 1.2 2012/09/04 10:08:03 mlemos Exp $
 *
 */

?><html>
<head>
<title>Validate and extract data from XML document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 align="center">Validate and extract data from XML document</h1>
<hr>
<?php
   
require('xml_parser.php');

   
$file_name = 'example.xml';
   
$error = XMLParseFile($parser, $file_name, 1, $file_name.'.cache');
    if(
strlen($error) == 0)
    {
       
/*
         * The types array defines the types and structure of the document
         * to be validated before extracting its data values.
         */
       
$content_types = array(
           
'CONTENTS'=>array(
               
'type'=>'hash',
               
'types'=>array(
                   
'OBJECT'=>array(
                       
'type'=>'hash',
                       
/* allow tag to appear an unlimited number of times */
                       
'maximum'=>'*',
                       
'types'=>array(
                           
'NAME'=>array(
                               
/* The default maximum and minimum times is 1 for required tags */
                               
'type'=>'text',
                            ),
                           
'CLASS'=>array(
                               
'type'=>'text',
                            ),
                           
'ATTRIBUTES'=>array(
                               
'type'=>'path',
                               
/* make it optional by not requiring a minimum number of times to appear */
                               
'minimum'=>0,
                            ),
                        )
                    )
                )
            )
        );
       
$root_path = '';
       
$root_element = 'CONTENTS';
       
$hash = 1;
       
$error = $parser->ExtractElementData($root_path, $root_element, $content_types, $hash, $contents);
    }

    if(
strlen($error))
        echo
'<h2 align="center">Parser error: ', $error, '</h2>';
    else
    {
        echo
'<h2 align="center">Extracted data structure</h2>';
        echo
'<p>This example dumps the structure and values of the XML file.</p>';
        echo
'<pre>';
       
/*
         * The resulting associative array has the tag names and values
         * that were found and validated in the XML document
         */
       
var_dump($contents);
        echo
'</pre>';
    }
?></body>
</html>