Re: XML trouble

2008-05-12 Thread cynic
Hey David, There's quite a few ways to get th data you're asking. If you're using PHP5 you can use SimpleXML (http://us2.php.net/simplexml) which would be really straight forward. Somewhere along the lines of $xml- >Response->Placemark->Point->coordinates or if you feel like using xpath somethin

Re: XML trouble

2008-05-04 Thread ruxkor
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]>

Re: XML trouble

2008-05-04 Thread Mike52
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); ret

XML trouble

2008-05-04 Thread David
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: 723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 200 geocode 723 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA