PUBLIC MARKS from idaashley with tags xml & php

When working with XML you really need a way to describe a namespace using multiple resources. The Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) allows you to do exactly this! Parse RDDL descriptors with an API in the XML_RDDL package from PEAR, and extract resource information for use in any PHP application.

This two-part article series is designed to get PHP developers up to speed in leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development. In Part 1, developers will create the XForms library using PHP, allowing each function to take in parameters and output XForm elements.

Changing an application's database back-end is a complex task, often requiring the developer to manually re-create database tables and records. The PEAR MDB2_Schema package can make this task easier, by generating a vendor-neutral representation of a database using XML and providing tools to import this representation into any supported RDBMS.

This first article of a three-part series introduces PHP5's XML implementation and help those relatively new to using XML with PHP to read, parse, and manipulate, and write a short and uncomplicated XML file using the DOM and SimpleXML in a PHP environment.