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Generating Tables from XML
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<!--
<contact id="43956">
<personal>
<name>
<first>J</first>
<middle>J</middle>
<last>J</last>
</name>
<title>Manager</title>
<employer>National</employer>
<dob>1971-12-22</dob>
</personal>
</contact>
-->
<html>
<head>
<title>Parsing With Expat and PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$cdata = '';
$cur_elem = '';
$first_name = '';
$middle_name = '';
$last_name = '';
$hdr_row = '<tr><td colspan="2">%s</td></tr>' . "\n";
$data_row = '<tr><td >%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>' . "\n";
$empty_row = '<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>' . "\n";
function start_elem ($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $cur_elem;
$cur_elem = $name;
if ($name == 'contact')
print ("<table cellspacing=0>\n");
}
function end_elem ($parser, $name) {
global $cdata, $cur_elem, $hdr_row, $data_row, $empty_row,
$first_name, $last_name, $middle_name;
$cdata = trim ($cdata);
switch ($name)
{
case ("contact"):
print ("</table>\n"); break;
case ("personal"):
case ("address"):
case ("tel"):
print ($empty_row); break;
case ("name"):
print (sprintf ($hdr_row,
"$last_name, $first_name $middle_name"));
$first_name = $last_name = $middle_name = ''; break;
case ("title"):
print (sprintf ($data_row, "Title", $cdata)); break;
case ("employer"):
print (sprintf ($data_row, "Company", $cdata)); break;
case ("dob"): print (sprintf ($data_row, "Birthdate", $cdata));
break;
}
$cdata = '';
}
function cdata ($parser, $data) {
global $cdata, $cur_elem, $last_name, $first_name, $middle_name;
$data = trim ($data);
switch ($cur_elem)
{
case ("first"):
$first_name .= $data; break;
case ("middle"):
$middle_name .= $data; break;
case ("last"):
$last_name .= $data; break;
default:
$cdata .= $data;
}
}
$file = "contact.xml";
$parser = xml_parser_create ();
xml_parser_set_option ($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, false);
xml_set_element_handler ($parser, "start_elem", "end_elem");
xml_set_character_data_handler ($parser, "cdata");
$fp = fopen ($file, "r");
if (!$fp){
die ("Couldn't open $file for reading");
}
while ($xml_input = fread ($fp, 2048)) {
$ok = xml_parse ($parser, $xml_input, feof ($fp));
if (!$ok){
die (sprintf ("Error in $file: '%s' at line %d",
xml_error_string (xml_get_error_code ($parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number ($parser)));
}
}
xml_parser_free ($parser);
?>
</body>
</html>
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