PHP Extensions for XML Manipulation

This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on PHP extensions for XML Manipulation. Topics include using SimpleXML, and DOM extensions to build and load XML documents; using XML Parser and XMLReader extensions to parse XML documents; using XSL extension to transform XML documents.


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List of PHP Extensions for XML Manipulation

Build XML with PHP SimpleXML Extension

Parse XML with PHP SimpleXML Extension

Browse XML Element Tree with PHP SimpleXML Extension

Access Children and Attributes by Name

Build XML with PHP DOM Extension

Parse XML with PHP DOM Extension

Browse XML DOM Tree with PHP

Parse XML with PHP XML Parser Extension

Parse XML with PHP XMLReader Extension

Build XML with PHP XMLWriter Extension

Transform XML with PHP XSL Extension


Takeaways:

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

 XML File Syntax

 XML File Browsers

 XML-JSON Document Conversion

 DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

 SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

 DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of DTD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified DTD Document Type

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of XSD Statements

 Validating XML Documents Against Specified XML Schemas

 XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction

 Java Implementation of XSLT

 XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction

 XPath (XML Path) Language

 XSLT Elements as Programming Statements

 Control and Generate XML Element in the Result

PHP Extensions for XML Manipulation

 Processing XML with Python Scripts

 XML Notepad - XML Editor

 XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++

 XML Plugin Packages for Atom Editor

 XML 1.1 Changes and Parsing Examples

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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