Sax4PHP

Description:

Sax4PHP is a PHP5 class to manage XML with a Java like SAX API [1, 2].

Development Status:

• Production/Stable
• development/Unstable

Version

0.6

Intended Audience:

• Developers,
• End Users/Desktop

License:

GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) v3.0

Operating System:

All (hopefully!) :

• MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP),
• All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac OS X),
• All POSIX

Programming Languages:

PHP5:

• Classes
• Basic PHP4&5 XML Parser functions (see [3])

Code example in PHP5:

<?php header('Content-type: text/xml');
include_once('Sax4PHP.php');

class MySaxHandler extends DefaultHandler {

  function startElement($name, $att) {
	echo "<start name='$name'/>\n";
  }
  
  function endElement($name) {
	echo "<end name='$name'/>\n";
  } 
  
  function startDocument() {
	echo "<list>\n";
  }
  
  function endDocument() {
	echo "</list>\n";
  }
}

$sax = new SaxParser(new MySaxHandler());
$sax->parse('myFile.xml');
?>

References:

• [1] SAX : http://www.saxproject.org/
• [2] Java 1.5 SAX API : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/xml/sax/package-summary.html
• [3] PHP XML Parser Functions : http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

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