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XML and PHP

By
Vikram Vaswani

Publisher
: New Riders Publishing

Pub Date
: June 10, 2002

ISBN
: 0-73571-227-1

Pages
: 384

Copyright

About the Author

About the Technical Reviewers

Acknowledgments

Tell Us What You Think

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book

Who This Book Is Not For

Development Environment

How to Use This Book

Overview

Conventions

Chapter 1.
XML and PHP Basics

XML

PHP

PHP and XML

Summary

Chapter 2.
PHP and the Simple API for XML (SAX)

SAX

PHP and SAX

Handling SAX Events

Controlling Parser Behavior

Using Native Data Structures

Handling Errors

A Few Examples

Summary

Chapter 3.
PHP and the Document Object Model (DOM)

Document Object Model (DOM)

PHP and the DOM

Traversing the DOM with PHP''''s DOM Classes

Traversing the DOM with PHP''''s XPath Classes

Manipulating DOM Trees

DOM or SAX?

Summary

Chapter 4.
PHP and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)

XSLT

PHP and XSLT

Handling Errors

Logging Processor Messages

Using Named Buffers

Passing Parameters to an XSLT Stylesheet

A Few Examples

Summary

Chapter 5.
PHP and Web Distributed Data eXchange (WDDX)

WDDX

PHP and WDDX

A Few Examples

Summary

Chapter 6.
PHP and XML-Based Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)

RPC

XML-RPC

SOAP

PHP and RPC

A Few Examples

Summary

Chapter 7.
PHP, XML, and Databases

XML versus the Database

Exporting Database Records To XML

Importing XML Data into a Database

Summary

Chapter 8.
Open Source PHP/XML Alternatives

Alternatives to PHP''''s Native Functions:What You Should Know

An Alternative PHP/DOM Implementation: eZXML

An Alternative PHP/XPath Implementation: PHP.XPath

An Alternative PHP/XML-RPC Implementation: XML-RPC for PHP

An Alternative PHP/SOAP Implementation: SOAPx4

Summary

Chapter 9.
Case Studies

Metabase

patTemplate and patXMLRenderer

Summary

Appendix A.
Recompiling PHP to Add XML Support

Obtaining the Software

Compiling and Installing the Software

Testing the Software

Appendix B.
Open Source Licenses

GNU General Public License (GPL)

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Mozilla Public License - Version 1.1

BSD License

Appendix C.
Glossary