Hi

I'm trying to extract data from an XML file. I'm not having much sucess. The file is produced in a version of XML that is from Microsoft (I think).

The header is <xml xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema">

The tags begin - <rs:data>
then <z:row id_property="2010" location="Nueva Andalucia".........price_med="0" />

Can anyone tell me if PHP can parse this sucessfully please? If not i can give up!

Yes, it can. What you're seeing there are namespaces. Namespaces allow other markup languages to be utilized in XML documents, and is part of a W3C standard.

If I were you I'd start with PEAR to find an already built XML parsing package. http://pear.php.net.

HTH!


Regards,
Rich

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BTW: regardless of the type of file, you can conceivably parse any type of file using PHP, anything from .mp3 audio to plain text. Of course, the more complicated the file format, the more complicated the script will be. PHP is often used for simple text files since it is optimized for that use, but as a programming language, really, the sky's the limit. :-)

Regards,
Rich

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Many thanks, richard. I'll struggle on!