NYCPHP Meetup

[Jayesh Sheth]

Hello Chris,

There is a ready-made PHP-Pear RSS XML class ( 
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/packages.xml.xml_rss.php ). You can see it 
being used at my Mozblogs at MozTips site: http://www.moztips.com/mozblogs 
, a very experimental and very basic web based RSS feed reader.

Regards,
- Jay Sheth

chris at psydeshow.org wrote:

>Phil Powell wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I have various XML files that might contain <> tags inside the element body, for example:
>>
>><news id="1" shortDescription="Stuff Happened Today">Today on <b>1/29/03</b>, stuff happened</news>
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>I've been wondering about this, too. I've been parsing RSS newsfeeds 
>(which sounds like the format you might want to try to get your data in 
>if you have any control over it-- http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/ ). 
>The RSS spec declares that html entities must be escaped, which makes it 
>easy to parse.
>
>But then I decided to try building templates using XML and ran into 
>exactly this problem-- I'm not an XML expert, but I wonder two things:
>
>1) Can I wrap blocks of HTML with CDATA tags to cause the parser to 
>ignore the tags?
>2) Should there be a parser function created (as part of PHP) that flags 
>certain tags as containing unparseable data?
>
>I didn't have time to try 1 yet and 2 is a little out of my league. Is 
>there another way besides brute-force tag rewriting?
>
>    chris.
>
>  
>

-- 
Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. 
Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop at Netscape! 
http://shopnow.netscape.com/