[phpXML] Re: [phpXML] Re: [phpXML] miss-match

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absolutely right, Nigel. The problem has nothing to do with CDATA - call it 
embedded structure, where the child(ren) is in the middle of the parent. Try 
the following:
<text>There are 2 categories:
<category>1</category>
<category>2 which has <sub>a subcategory</sub> as well</category>
which have to be taken into account.</text>
etc etc.
The parser adds an extra element to the array for each segment of a node, but 
phpxml's load_file ignores this and just adds the content to the node without 
any indication that there was a child in that position. Consequently, it 
loses information. (it also compounds the error by stripping the spaces 
around the tags, so "<text>The spacing is <e>very</e> important.</text>" 
comes out as "The spacingisimportant." :-)

afaics, the only solution is to add an extra array to correspond to each 
segment, so my example above would be stored as text[0] e[0] text[1]. It gets 
pretty hairy though trying to put it back together again, as there is no 
limit to the number or levels of the array. I gave up trying to use php's 
parse_into_struct because my poor brain couldn't cope with navigating all the 
arrays!


On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:20, you wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that this actually solves the stated problem though as I think
> I am right in saying that this is a fix that goes into get_file(). 
> Therefore if the datastructure can't describe "Before<tag>Middle</tag>End",
> then it's not going to be able to print it.
>
> This fix will cope with usage of the object that make calls to
> set_content("address","Some text <B>that</B> contains some markup.").  But
> if the xml file that you read in already has "Some text <B>that</B>
> contains some markup." then the class is going to loose this structure in
> the parse.
>
> Basically phpxml's internal datastructure is lossy.  You can't read to
> object and write back out to file and have two logically identical files. 
> Ideally it ought to be.
>
> We need a more complete fix for this in the constructor or load_from_file
> function I think....
>
> Nigel
>
> > How can I get around phpXML's tendency to place tags inside regular text
> > after the tag containing the text.
> >  i.e.,
> >     <blah1>
> >             Text<blah2>more</blah2>text.
> >     </blah>
> > Comes out
> >
> > Text text.more
>
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