Cons: DOM is annoying to work with. My advice: write a prototype with SimpleXML, see if it works for you. If performance is paramount, try DOM. Stay as far away from XMLReader as possible. Remember that the more code you write, the higher the possibility of you introducing bugs or introducing performance regressions. The accepted answer gave me a good start, but brought in more classes and more processing than I would have liked; so this is my interpretation:.
As such, my answer assumes you want only specific information and you know where it is located. I find the easiest way to use XMLReader is to know which tags I want the information out of and use them.
If you know the structure of the XML and it has lots of unique tags, I find that using the first case is the easy.
Cases 2 and 3 are just to show you how it can be done for more complex tags. For example, you could go through the entire document you gave like this:. It is then up to you to decide how to deal with the node returned by XMLReader::expand. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 1 month ago. Active 1 year, 4 months ago. Viewed k times. BenMorel Shadi Almosri Shadi Almosri Have you read some of the user contributed examples in the PHP documentation? Add a comment. When parsing massive XML documents using XMLReader, gather the data you need to perform an operation then perform it before skipping to the next node.
Do not build massive data structures from a massive XML document, your server and it's admins will not like you. Guys, I hope this example will help you can erase prints showing the process- and it will be a piece of nice code. This is my new child of XML parsing method based on my and yours modification.
The problem was that it would overwrite nodes if they had the same tag name. Some more documentation i. When we are finished with this node, it is destroyed with unset so that PHP garbage collection can free it.
XMLReader:: next will jump to the next product node. I am facing an issue as my xml is much larger mb. I hope I can make you understand the issue. Hi Wasid, I think I do understand the problem. Did you try to post the question to the stackoverflow including the small sample of the XML and simple but complete test php script which demonstrates the problem?
Also, is your XML valid check it with one of many online validators? Thank you, this is a neat solution. Hi, the complete example is included in the page below label test There is only link to download example xml file. Hi, I am not sure what do you mean. The article example is only about reading the large xml file. Hi, I am not sure that I understand the structure of your xml. Can you please provide a example of such xml?
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