I posed this question to John O’Nolan, a WordPress core developer, who forwarded my question to core committer Aaron Jorbin. O’Nolan responded by saying (I’m paraphrasing) that there isn’t any official documentation on the WXR standard, but that reverse engineering a WXR export should give me all the information I need. O’Nolan also noted that … Read more
The error message is actually correct if not obvious. It says that your DOCTYPE must have a SYSTEM identifier. I assume yours only has a public identifier. You’ll get the error with (for instance): You won’t with: Notice “” at the end in the second one — that’s the system identifier. The error message is … Read more
You need a root node
You want awk. This would be a quick and dirty hack: awk -F “\”” ‘{print $2}’ /tmp/file.txt
XML Declaration <?xml version=”1.0″?> is an XML declaration. It is an optional indication of the version of XML, the character encoding, and the standalone document declaration. It can only appear as the very top of an XML file, if anywhere, and may not be repeated. <xml version=”1.0″> is an open tag (that will require a closing tag) to an … Read more
General case The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed. This error indicates that your XML has markup following the root element. In order to be well-formed, XML must have exactly one root element, and there can be no further markup following the single root element. One root element example (GOOD) The most common sources … Read more
Here is a quick DOM example that shows how to read and write a simple xml file with its dtd: and the dtd: First import these: Here are a few variables you will need: Here is a reader (String xml is the name of your xml file): And here a writer: getTextValue is here: Add … Read more
So that I can ask it to get me the content/text in the div tag with class=’container’ contained within the body tag, Or something similar. You don’t need performance descriptions I guess – just read how BeautifulSoup works. Look at its official documentation.
Native XML Extensions I prefer using one of the native XML extensions since they come bundled with PHP, are usually faster than all the 3rd party libs and give me all the control I need over the markup. DOM The DOM extension allows you to operate on XML documents through the DOM API with PHP 5. It … Read more
As @pguardiario mentioned, Nokogiri is the de facto XML and HTML parsing library. If you wanted to print out the Id and Name values in your example, here is how you would do it: A few notes: at_xpath is for matching one thing. If you know you have multiple items, you want to use xpath instead. Depending on your document, namespaces can be problematic, … Read more