the regex approach could be useful if you validate the xml against a DTD before parsing..
another approach would be using http://www.php.net/simplexml SimpleXML, it is really straightforward even if you are not familiar with typical SAX/DOM parsers! On May 4, 5:50 pm, Mike52 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could get the value in a "quick-and-dirty" way by using a regex. > The function below takes the xml data as a string and you pass it the > name of the tag: > > function getTagValue($xmldata, $tag) { > $pattern = "/<$tag>(.*)<\/$tag>/"; > preg_match($pattern, $xmldata, $matches); > return $matches[1]; > } > > $coordinate = getTagValue($xmlstring, 'coordinates'); > > On May 4, 8:54 am, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > I'm fairly new to Cake, so bear with me. My question is about Cake's > > XML class: > > > Specifically, I'm trying to parse an XML file like this: > > > <kml> > > <Response> > > <name>723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106</name> > > <Status> > > <code>200</code> > > <request>geocode</request> > > </Status> > > <Placemark id="p1"> > > <address>723 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA</address> > > <AddressDetails Accuracy="8"> > > <Country> > > <CountryNameCode>US</CountryNameCode> > > <AdministrativeArea> > > <AdministrativeAreaName>PA</AdministrativeAreaName> > > <Locality> > > <LocalityName>Philadelphia</LocalityName> > > <Thoroughfare> > > <ThoroughfareName>723 Chestnut St</ThoroughfareName> > > </Thoroughfare> > > <PostalCode> > > <PostalCodeNumber>19106</PostalCodeNumber> > > </PostalCode> > > </Locality> > > </AdministrativeArea> > > </Country> > > </AddressDetails> > > <Point> > > <coordinates>-75.153277,39.949768,0</coordinates> > > </Point> > > </Placemark> > > </Response> > > </kml> > > > Trick is I only want the coordinates. I'm also somewhat new to working > > with XML, so I might be missing something completely obvious here. > > > Anywho, I can get the XML to load fine with $feed =& new XML($url); > > > I just can't figure out how to parse it and get to that one piece of > > data. > > > You're help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
