<div class=heading>
    PHP: <a href="XMLParser.php">XMLParser.php</a>
  </div>
  <p tal:define="global title string:XMLParser"
     tal:content="structure here/lib/cc_publicdomain">
  </p>
  <p>
    This is a simple abstraction layer for PHP that allows XML input to be
treated as a nested array.
  </p>
  <p>
  NOTE: THIS CODE IS OBSOLETE! Get the <b><a href="http://eric.pollmann.net/items/2007/2/2007_02_12_xmlparser/">updated version</a></b>!
  </p>
  <p>
    Sample usage:
  </p>
  <pre>
  require_once('XMLParser.php');

... string buffer ...
  $data = '&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
&lt;country name="usa">
    &lt;city name="mountain view">baz
        &lt;user>Jack&lt;/user>
        &lt;user>Jill&lt;/user>bam
    &lt;/city>
&lt;/country>
';
  $parser = new XMLParser($data, 'raw', 1);
  $tree = $parser->getTree();

... file handle ...
  if($fh = popen("./demo.pl", "r")) {
    $parser = new XMLParser($fh, 'stream', 1);
    $result = $parser->getTree();
    pclose($fh);
  }

... file name ...
  $parser = new XMLParser('./foo.xml', 'file', 1);
  $tree = $parser->getTree();

... url ...
  $parser = new XMLParser('http://example.com/foo.xml', 'url', 1);
  $tree = $parser->getTree();

... view output ...
  // Display the array
  echo '&lt;PRE>';
  print_r($tree);
  echo '&lt;/PRE>';
  </pre>
  <p>
    <a href="XMLParser.php">Download XMLParser.php</a>
  </p>