[kdewebdev-site] FAQ (in text)

[Chris Martin]

Andras Mantia wrote:
> - who will write the PHP parser engine which creates HTML from XML?

Here's how ... err, simple.. XML is in php5 with the simpleXML function. 
I added a second "faq" to the sample xml for looping purposes.

I also have a function that will parse XML, that works in PHP 4, and 
there are a few classes that do this.

<?php
$faqXml = <<<FAQXML
<faqs>
<faq>
   <question>the question 1</question>
   <answer>the answer 1</answer>
   <maintainer name="name" email="email" />
   <category name="category" />
   <product name="product" />
</faq>
<faq>
   <question>the question 2</question>
   <answer>the answer 2</answer>
   <maintainer name="name" email="email" />
   <category name="category" />
   <product name="product" />
</faq>
</faqs>
FAQXML;

$xml = simplexml_load_string($faqXml);

// access by individual element
echo $xml->faq[0]->question;

// or loop
foreach( $xml->faq as $item ) {
	echo $item->question."\n";	
}
?>


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Chris Martin
Web Developer
Open Source & Web Standards Advocate
http://www.chriscodes.com/