©
This document uses PHP Chinese website manual Release
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
The XMLReader extension is an XML Pull parser. The reader acts as a cursor going forward on the document stream and stopping at each node on the way.
$basenode
] )$name
)$index
)$localName
, string $namespaceURI
)$property
)$prefix
)$name
)$index
)$localName
, string $namespaceURI
)$localname
] )$URI
[, string $encoding
[, int $options
= 0
]] )$property
, bool $value
)$filename
)$source
)$filename
)$source
[, string $encoding
[, int $options
= 0
]] )The number of attributes on the node
The base URI of the node
Depth of the node in the tree, starting at 0
Indicates if node has attributes
Indicates if node has a text value
Indicates if attribute is defaulted from DTD
Indicates if node is an empty element tag
The local name of the node
The qualified name of the node
The URI of the namespace associated with the node
The node type for the node
The prefix of the namespace associated with the node
The text value of the node
The xml:lang scope which the node resides
XMLReader::NONE
No node type
XMLReader::ELEMENT
Start element
XMLReader::ATTRIBUTE
Attribute node
XMLReader::TEXT
Text node
XMLReader::CDATA
CDATA node
XMLReader::ENTITY_REF
Entity Reference node
XMLReader::ENTITY
Entity Declaration node
XMLReader::PI
Processing Instruction node
XMLReader::COMMENT
Comment node
XMLReader::DOC
Document node
XMLReader::DOC_TYPE
Document Type node
XMLReader::DOC_FRAGMENT
Document Fragment node
XMLReader::NOTATION
Notation node
XMLReader::WHITESPACE
Whitespace node
XMLReader::SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE
Significant Whitespace node
XMLReader::END_ELEMENT
End Element
XMLReader::END_ENTITY
End Entity
XMLReader::XML_DECLARATION
XML Declaration node
XMLReader::LOADDTD
Load DTD but do not validate
XMLReader::DEFAULTATTRS
Load DTD and default attributes but do not validate
XMLReader::VALIDATE
Load DTD and validate while parsing
XMLReader::SUBST_ENTITIES
Substitute entities and expand references
[#1] dkrnl at yandex dot ru [2013-10-04 04:10:56]
Wrapper XMLReader class, for simple SAX-reading huge xml:
https://github.com/dkrnl/SimpleXMLReader
Usage example: http://github.com/dkrnl/SimpleXMLReader/blob/master/examples/example1.php
<?php
class SimpleXMLReader extends XMLReader
{
protected $callback = array();
public function registerCallback($name, $callback, $nodeType = XMLREADER::ELEMENT)
{
if (isset($this->callback[$nodeType][$name])) {
throw new Exception("Already exists callback $name($nodeType).");
}
if (!is_callable($callback)) {
throw new Exception("Already exists parser callback $name($nodeType).");
}
$this->callback[$nodeType][$name] = $callback;
return $this;
}
public function unRegisterCallback($name, $nodeType = XMLREADER::ELEMENT)
{
if (!isset($this->callback[$nodeType][$name])) {
throw new Exception("Unknow parser callback $name($nodeType).");
}
unset($this->callback[$nodeType][$name]);
return $this;
}
public function parse()
{
if (empty($this->callback)) {
throw new Exception("Empty parser callback.");
}
$continue = true;
while ($continue && $this->read()) {
if (isset($this->callback[$this->nodeType][$this->name])) {
$continue = call_user_func($this->callback[$this->nodeType][$this->name], $this);
}
}
}
public function expandXpath($path, $version = "1.0", $encoding = "UTF-8")
{
return $this->expandSimpleXml($version, $encoding)->xpath($path);
}
public function expandString($version = "1.0", $encoding = "UTF-8")
{
return $this->expandSimpleXml($version, $encoding)->asXML();
}
public function expandSimpleXml($version = "1.0", $encoding = "UTF-8", $className = null)
{
$element = $this->expand();
$document = new DomDocument($version, $encoding);
$node = $document->importNode($element, true);
$document->appendChild($node);
return simplexml_import_dom($node, $className);
}
public function expandDomDocument($version = "1.0", $encoding = "UTF-8")
{
$element = $this->expand();
$document = new DomDocument($version, $encoding);
$node = $document->importNode($element, true);
$document->appendChild($node);
return $document;
}
}
?>
[#2] kula_shakerz [2013-04-03 14:27:44]
Found this in the IXmlReader docs at msdn but it's also valid for XMLReader in PHP.
You should save the value of $isEmptyElement before processing attributes, or call moveToElement to make $isEmptyElement valid after processing attributes.
$isEmptyElement returns FALSE when XMLReader is positioned on an attribute node, even if attribute's parent element is empty.
[#3] Mike De Smet [2012-09-25 16:35:54]
For those of you getting xml files that do not contain duplicate elements (in the same element), the following converter converts to arrays with key/value mapping (thus overwriting duplicate elements!):
Note this is untested with attributes although I built in support.
<?php
function xml2assoc($xml, array &$target = array()) {
while ($xml->read()) {
switch ($xml->nodeType) {
case XMLReader::END_ELEMENT:
return $target;
case XMLReader::ELEMENT:
$name = $xml->name;
$target[$name] = $xml->hasAttributes ? array() : '';
if (!$xml->isEmptyElement) {
$target[$name] = array();
xml2assoc($xml, $target[$name]);
}
if ($xml->hasAttributes)
while($xml->moveToNextAttribute())
$target[$name]['@'.$xml->name] = $xml->value;
break;
case XMLReader::TEXT:
case XMLReader::CDATA:
$target = $xml->value;
}
}
return $target;
}
?>
[#4] casella dot email at google dot mail dot com [2012-09-22 15:59:55]
To verify that all nodes are read without error/warning you can use this code:
<?php
$endofxml = false;
$xml_url = "example.xml";
$reader = new XMLReader();
if(!$reader->open($xml_url)){
print "Error to open XML: $xml_url\n";
} else {
while ($reader->read()) {
$firstnode = (!isset($firstnode)) ? $reader->name : $firstnode;
if ($reader->nodeType == XMLReader::END_ELEMENT && $reader->name == $firstnode) {
$endofxml = true;
}
}
}
if($endofxml) {
print "no error found";
} else {
print "error found";
}
?>
This code is useful to trap $reader->read() error/warning.
[#5] lee8oi at gmail dot com [2012-03-21 13:54:22]
Sometimes you have an unusual URL that doesn't actually point to an xml file but still returns xml as output (Like the Battlefield Heroes generated syndication urls). Using get_file_contents(url) you can retrieve the xml data from these urls and pass it as a variable for processing as an XML String.
Unfortunately simpleXML or xml DOM cannot process all xml strings. Some have error boxes added to the end of them (such as Battlefield Heroes syndicated news). These boxes cause an end of file sort of error and closes out the script. XMLReader grabs data from these strings without error.
[#6] japos dot trash at googlemail dot com [2010-10-09 14:17:02]
Take care about how to use XMLReader::$isElementEmpty. I don't know if it is a bug or not, but $isElementEmpty is set for the current context and NOT just for the element. If you move your cursor to an attribute, $isElementEmpty will ALWAYS be false.
<?php
$xml = new XMLReader();
$xml->XML('<tag attr="value" />');
$xml->read();
var_dump($xml->isEmptyElement);
$xml->moveToNextAttribute();
var_dump($xml->isEmptyElement);
?>
will output
(bool) true
(bool) false
So be sure to store $isEmptyElement before moving the cursor.
[#7] jart (at) mail.ru [2010-09-23 06:59:59]
Guys, I hope this example will help
you can erase prints showing the process-
and it will be a piece of nice code.
<?php
function xml2assoc($xml, $name)
{
print "<ul>";
$tree = null;
print("I'm inside " . $name . "<br>");
while($xml->read())
{
if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::END_ELEMENT)
{
print "</ul>";
return $tree;
}
else if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::ELEMENT)
{
$node = array();
print("Adding " . $xml->name ."<br>");
$node['tag'] = $xml->name;
if($xml->hasAttributes)
{
$attributes = array();
while($xml->moveToNextAttribute())
{
print("Adding attr " . $xml->name ." = " . $xml->value . "<br>");
$attributes[$xml->name] = $xml->value;
}
$node['attr'] = $attributes;
}
if(!$xml->isEmptyElement)
{
$childs = xml2assoc($xml, $node['tag']);
$node['childs'] = $childs;
}
print($node['tag'] . " added <br>");
$tree[] = $node;
}
else if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::TEXT)
{
$node = array();
$node['text'] = $xml->value;
$tree[] = $node;
print "text added = " . $node['text'] . "<br>";
}
}
print "returning " . count($tree) . " childs<br>";
print "</ul>";
return $tree;
}
echo "<PRE>";
$xml = new XMLReader();
$xml->open('test.xml');
$assoc = xml2assoc($xml, "root");
$xml->close();
print_r($assoc);
echo "</PRE>";
?>
It reads this xml:
<test>
<hallo volume="loud"> me <br/> lala </hallo>
<hallo> me </hallo>
</test>
[#8] jnettles at inccrra dot org [2009-10-02 09:51:53]
Just in case someone is confused, if you're wanting to simply pass a string of XML instead of an entire file, you would do this.
<?php
$foo = new XMLReader();
$foo->xml($STRING);
?>
.... where $STRING holds your XML. You cannot pass it like $foo = $STRING or $foo->xml = $STRING.
[#9] james dot ellis at example dot com [2009-03-25 15:16:58]
The "XML2Assoc" functions noted here should be used with caution... basically they are duplicating the functionality already present in SimpleXML. They may work but they won't scale.
Their are two main uses cases for parsing XML, each suited to either XMLReader or SimpleXML.
1. SimpleXML is an excellent tool for easy access to an XML document tree using native PHP data types. It starts to flounder with massive (> 50M or so) XML documents, as it reads the entire document into memory before it can be processed. SimpleXML will just laugh at you then die when your server runs out of memory (or it will cause a load spike).
2. Aside from the reasoning behind massive XML documents, if you have to deal with massive XML documents, use XMLReader to process them. Don't try and gather an entire XML document into a PHP data structure using XMLReader and a PHP xml2assoc() function, you are reinventing the SimpleXML wheel.
When parsing massive XML documents using XMLReader, gather the data you need to perform an operation then perform it before skipping to the next node. Do not build massive data structures from a massive XML document, your server (and it's admins) will not like you.
[#10] PxL [2009-01-23 03:36:19]
A basic parser
<?php
function xml2assoc($xml) {
$arr = array();
if (!preg_match_all('|\<\s*?(\w+).*?\>(.*)\<\/\s*\\1.*?\>|s', $xml, $m)) return $xml;
if (is_array($m[1]))
for ($i = 0;$i < sizeof($m[1]); $i++) $arr[$m[1][$i]] = xml2assoc($m[2][$i]);
else $arr[$m[1]] = xml2assoc($m[2]);
return $arr;
}
?>
[#11] boukeversteegh at gmail dot com [2009-01-18 02:06:19]
XML to ASSOCIATIVE ARRAY
Improved algorithm based on Sergey Aikinkulov's. The problem was that it would overwrite nodes if they had the same tag name. Because of that <a><b/><b/><a> would be read as if <a><b/><a/>. This algorithm handles it better and outputs an easy to understand array:
<?php
function xml2assoc($xml) {
$tree = null;
while($xml->read())
switch ($xml->nodeType) {
case XMLReader::END_ELEMENT: return $tree;
case XMLReader::ELEMENT:
$node = array('tag' => $xml->name, 'value' => $xml->isEmptyElement ? '' : xml2assoc($xml));
if($xml->hasAttributes)
while($xml->moveToNextAttribute())
$node['attributes'][$xml->name] = $xml->value;
$tree[] = $node;
break;
case XMLReader::TEXT:
case XMLReader::CDATA:
$tree .= $xml->value;
}
return $tree;
}
?>
Usage:
myxml.xml:
------
<PERSON>
<NAME>John</NAME>
<PHONE type="home">555-555-555</PHONE>
</PERSON>
----
<?php
$xml = new XMLReader();
$xml->open('myxml.xml');
$assoc = xml2assoc($xml);
$xml->close();
print_r($assoc);
?>
Outputs:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[tag] => PERSON
[value] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[tag] => NAME
[value] => John
)
[1] => Array
(
[tag] => PHONE
[value] => 555-555-555
[attributes] => Array
(
[type] => home
)
)
)
)
)
For reasons that have to do with recursion, it returns an array with the ROOT xml node as the first childNode, rather than to return only the ROOT node.
[#12] andrei_antal at yahoo dot com [2009-01-08 08:25:52]
<?php
//Pull certain elements
$reader = new XMLReader();
$reader->open($xmlfile);
while ($reader->read()) {
switch ($reader->nodeType) {
case (XMLREADER::ELEMENT):
if ($reader->name == "Code")
{
$reader->read();
$code = trim($reader->value);
echo "$code\n";
break;
}
if ($reader->name == "Name")
{
$reader->read();
$customername = trim( $reader->value );
echo "$name\n";
break;
}
if ($reader->name == "Camp")
{
$camp = trim($reader->getAttribute("ID"));
echo "$camp\n";
break;
}
}
}
?>
[#13] godseth at o2 dot pl [2008-11-28 02:34:37]
Thanks rein_baarsma33 AT hotmail DOT com for bugfixes.
This is my new child of XML parsing method based on my and yours modification.
XML2ASSOC Is a complete solution for parsing ordinary XML
<?php
class Xml2Assoc {
protected $bOptimize = false;
public function parseString( $sXml , $bOptimize = false) {
$oXml = new XMLReader();
$this -> bOptimize = (bool) $bOptimize;
try {
// Set String Containing XML data
$oXml->XML($sXml);
// Parse Xml and return result
return $this->parseXml($oXml);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
}
public function parseFile( $sXmlFilePath , $bOptimize = false ) {
$oXml = new XMLReader();
$this -> bOptimize = (bool) $bOptimize;
try {
// Open XML file
$oXml->open($sXmlFilePath);
// // Parse Xml and return result
return $this->parseXml($oXml);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage(). ' | Try open file: '.$sXmlFilePath;
}
}
protected function parseXml( XMLReader $oXml ) {
$aAssocXML = null;
$iDc = -1;
while($oXml->read()){
switch ($oXml->nodeType) {
case XMLReader::END_ELEMENT:
if ($this->bOptimize) {
$this->optXml($aAssocXML);
}
return $aAssocXML;
case XMLReader::ELEMENT:
if(!isset($aAssocXML[$oXml->name])) {
if($oXml->hasAttributes) {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = $oXml->isEmptyElement ? '' : $this->parseXML($oXml);
} else {
if($oXml->isEmptyElement) {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name] = '';
} else {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name] = $this->parseXML($oXml);
}
}
} elseif (is_array($aAssocXML[$oXml->name])) {
if (!isset($aAssocXML[$oXml->name][0]))
{
$temp = $aAssocXML[$oXml->name];
foreach ($temp as $sKey=>$sValue)
unset($aAssocXML[$oXml->name][$sKey]);
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = $temp;
}
if($oXml->hasAttributes) {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = $oXml->isEmptyElement ? '' : $this->parseXML($oXml);
} else {
if($oXml->isEmptyElement) {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = '';
} else {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = $this->parseXML($oXml);
}
}
} else {
$mOldVar = $aAssocXML[$oXml->name];
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name] = array($mOldVar);
if($oXml->hasAttributes) {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = $oXml->isEmptyElement ? '' : $this->parseXML($oXml);
} else {
if($oXml->isEmptyElement) {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = '';
} else {
$aAssocXML[$oXml->name][] = $this->parseXML($oXml);
}
}
}
if($oXml->hasAttributes) {
$mElement =& $aAssocXML[$oXml->name][count($aAssocXML[$oXml->name]) - 1];
while($oXml->moveToNextAttribute()) {
$mElement[$oXml->name] = $oXml->value;
}
}
break;
case XMLReader::TEXT:
case XMLReader::CDATA:
$aAssocXML[++$iDc] = $oXml->value;
}
}
return $aAssocXML;
}
public function optXml(&$mData) {
if (is_array($mData)) {
if (isset($mData[0]) && count($mData) == 1 ) {
$mData = $mData[0];
if (is_array($mData)) {
foreach ($mData as &$aSub) {
$this->optXml($aSub);
}
}
} else {
foreach ($mData as &$aSub) {
$this->optXml($aSub);
}
}
}
}
}
?>
[EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: Fixes were also provided by "Alex" and (qdog AT qview DOT org) in user notes on this page (since removed).]
[#14] Sergey Aikinkulov [2008-06-19 03:51:39]
Next version xml2assoc with some improve fixes:
- no doubled data
- no buffer arrays
<?php
function xml2assoc($xml) {
$assoc = null;
while($xml->read()){
switch ($xml->nodeType) {
case XMLReader::END_ELEMENT: return $assoc;
case XMLReader::ELEMENT:
$assoc[$xml->name][] = array('value' => $xml->isEmptyElement ? '' : xml2assoc($xml));
if($xml->hasAttributes){
$el =& $assoc[$xml->name][count($assoc[$xml->name]) - 1];
while($xml->moveToNextAttribute()) $el['attributes'][$xml->name] = $xml->value;
}
break;
case XMLReader::TEXT:
case XMLReader::CDATA: $assoc .= $xml->value;
}
}
return $assoc;
}
?>
[#15] desk_ocean at msn dot com [2008-03-16 10:03:42]
make some modify from Sergey Aikinkulov's note
<?php
function xml2assoc(&$xml){
$assoc = NULL;
$n = 0;
while($xml->read()){
if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::END_ELEMENT) break;
if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::ELEMENT and !$xml->isEmptyElement){
$assoc[$n]['name'] = $xml->name;
if($xml->hasAttributes) while($xml->moveToNextAttribute()) $assoc[$n]['atr'][$xml->name] = $xml->value;
$assoc[$n]['val'] = xml2assoc($xml);
$n++;
}
else if($xml->isEmptyElement){
$assoc[$n]['name'] = $xml->name;
if($xml->hasAttributes) while($xml->moveToNextAttribute()) $assoc[$n]['atr'][$xml->name] = $xml->value;
$assoc[$n]['val'] = "";
$n++;
}
else if($xml->nodeType == XMLReader::TEXT) $assoc = $xml->value;
}
return $assoc;
}
?>
add else if($xml->isEmptyElement)
may be some xml has emptyelement
[#16] itari [2008-02-15 08:30:18]
<?php
function parseXML($node,$seq,$path) {
global $oldpath;
if (!$node->read())
return;
if ($node->nodeType != 15) {
print '<br/>'.$node->depth;
print '-'.$seq++;
print ' '.$path.'/'.($node->nodeType==3?'text() = ':$node->name);
print $node->value;
if ($node->hasAttributes) {
print ' [hasAttributes: ';
while ($node->moveToNextAttribute()) print '@'.$node->name.' = '.$node->value.' ';
print ']';
}
if ($node->nodeType == 1) {
$oldpath=$path;
$path.='/'.$node->name;
}
parseXML($node,$seq,$path);
}
else parseXML($node,$seq,$oldpath);
}
$source = "<tag1>this<tag2 id='4' name='foo'>is</tag2>a<tag2 id='5'>common</tag2>record</tag1>";
$xml = new XMLReader();
$xml->XML($source);
print htmlspecialchars($source).'<br/>';
parseXML($xml,0,'');
?>
Output:
<tag1>this<tag2 id='4' name='foo'>is</tag2>a<tag2 id='5'>common</tag2>record</tag1>
0-0 /tag1
1-1 /tag1/text() = this
1-2 /tag1/tag2 [hasAttributes: @id = 4 @name = foo ]
2-3 /tag1/text() = is
1-4 /text() = a
1-5 /tag2 [hasAttributes: @id = 5 ]
2-6 /text() = common
1-7 /text() = record
[#17] orion at ftf-hq dot dk [2006-02-15 04:50:31]
Some more documentation (i.e. examples) would be nice :-)
This is how I read some mysql parameters in an xml file:
<?php
$xml = new XMLReader();
$xml->open("config.xml");
$xml->setParserProperty(2,true); // This seems a little unclear to me - but it worked :)
while ($xml->read()) {
switch ($xml->name) {
case "mysql_host":
$xml->read();
$conf["mysql_host"] = $xml->value;
$xml->read();
break;
case "mysql_username":
$xml->read();
$conf["mysql_user"] = $xml->value;
$xml->read();
break;
case "mysql_password":
$xml->read();
$conf["mysql_pass"] = $xml->value;
$xml->read();
break;
case "mysql_database":
$xml->read();
$conf["mysql_db"] = $xml->value;
$xml->read();
break;
}
}
$xml->close();
?>
The XML file used:
<?phpxml version='1.0'?>
<MySQL_INIT>
<mysql_host>localhost</mysql_host>
<mysql_database>db_database</mysql_database>
<mysql_username>root</mysql_username>
<mysql_password>password</mysql_password>
</MySQL_INIT>