(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
xml_parser_set_option — Set options in an XML parser
Sets an option in an XML parser.
parserA reference to the XML parser to set an option in.
optionWhich option to set. See below.
The following options are available:
| Option constant | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING |
integer | Controls whether case-folding is enabled for this XML parser. Enabled by default. |
XML_OPTION_SKIP_TAGSTART |
integer | Specify how many characters should be skipped in the beginning of a tag name. |
XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE |
integer | Whether to skip values consisting of whitespace characters. |
XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING |
string | Sets which target encoding to use in this XML parser.By default, it is set to the same as the source encoding used by xml_parser_create(). Supported target encodings are ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII and UTF-8. |
valueThe option's new value.
This function returns FALSE if parser does not
refer to a valid parser, or if the option could not be set. Else the
option is set and TRUE is returned.
The option XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE has no effect in my PHP 5.2.6 (with expat-1.95.8-5). To skip cdata composed of white space only, simply check for that at the beginning of your cdata callback function:
<?php
function callback_cdata($parser, $cdata)
{
if(!trim($cdata))
return;
// ... continue processing ...
}
?>
A little mod to a function posted here...
function xml_to_array( $file )
{
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option( $parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0 );
xml_parser_set_option( $parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1 );
xml_parse_into_struct( $parser, file_get_contents($file), $tags );
xml_parser_free( $parser );
$elements = array();
$stack = array();
foreach ( $tags as $tag )
{
$index = count( $elements );
if ( $tag['type'] == "complete" || $tag['type'] == "open" )
{
$elements[$index] = array();
$elements[$index]['name'] = $tag['tag'];
$elements[$index]['attributes'] = $tag['attributes'];
$elements[$index]['content'] = $tag['value'];
if ( $tag['type'] == "open" )
{ # push
$elements[$index]['children'] = array();
$stack[count($stack)] = &$elements;
$elements = &$elements[$index]['children'];
}
}
if ( $tag['type'] == "close" )
{ # pop
$elements = &$stack[count($stack) - 1];
unset($stack[count($stack) - 1]);
}
}
return $elements[0];
}
I'm a little confused about using xml_parser_set_option and xml_parser_get_option with XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE and XML_OPTION_SKIP_TAGSTART.
Looking at the source code, ...set_option() accepts both ...SKIP_WHITE and ...SKIP_TAGSTART, and sets a program variables. On the other hand, ...get_option() returns an error for both. I'm not sure of the code actually uses the variables properly, although it does reference the set variables. This does look like an oversite.
Had one heck of a time getting curl to send my XML request. Tried a lot of different things, FINALLY ended up with this.
Im making a curl request to paymentech / Orbital 's payment gateway. Essentially, I took the same header i made for the fsockopen() request, and used it for this curl request. (Hostinc company didnt allow fsockopen().
You'll note that this specific gateway requires a custom content type header. Thats what gave me the most trouble. When using the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS together, it doesnt matter, it sends the default post header because of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
<?php
$url = "https://example.com";
$page = "/proccessing_page.cgi";
$post_string = "<YourXML>All XML stuff Here</YourXML>";
$header = "POST ".$page." HTTP/1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: application/PTI26 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-length: ".strlen($post_string)." \r\n";
$header .= "Content-transfer-encoding: text \r\n";
$header .= "Request-number: 1 \r\n";
$header .= "Document-type: Request \r\n";
$header .= "Interface-Version: Test 1.4 \r\n";
$header .= "Connection: close \r\n\r\n";
$header .= $post_string;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $header);
$data = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print curl_error($ch);
} else {
curl_close($ch);
}
// use XML Parser on $data, and your set!
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,1);
xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser, $data, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
// $vals = array of XML tags. Go get em!
?>
Worked like a dream for me. Enjoy!
Re: anony at mous dot com
case folding is a violation of the XHTML specification. xhtml is all in lowercase to be inline with the DOM
XML is case sensitive, then, from my point of view, disabling case folding doesn't goes against xml 1.0 specifications but the contrary, disabling case folding allow us to distiguish between diferent cases of the same letter ('a' and 'A') which of XML are two diferent things.
From my point of view, disabling case folding is a good practice and I think it should be disabled by default.
More information on:
http://www.isacat.net/2001/xml/case.htm
and
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
Thank you.
XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE works for me (linux, php 4.2.1)
phpinfo says :
XML Support active
XML Namespace Support active
EXPAT Version expat_1.95.2
i guess it depends on expat version/presence
The two 'skip' tags are not available to windows users using PHP 4.0.4. The following:
$skipWhite = xml_parser_get_option ($xmlParser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE);
$skipTagStart = xml_parser_get_option ($xmlParser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_TAGSTART);
generates the following errors:
Warning: xml_parser_get_option: unknown option in c:/program files/abria merlin/apache/htdocs/xml/sax_test.php on line 230
Disable case folding or your code will be violating the XML 1.0 specification.
In the function below, you need to update two lines if you don't want php to throw warnings.
change these two:
$elements[$index]['attributes'] = $tag['attributes'];
$elements[$index]['content'] = $tag['value'];
to this:
$elements[$index]['attributes'] = empty($tag['attributes']) ? "" : $tag['attributes'];
$elements[$index]['content'] = empty($tag['value']) ? "" : $tag['value'];
