Blog entries tagged XML

XMLWriter in PHP

Garrett Bluma — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Every now and then I find myself needing to export a set of objects to XML. I usually find a quick way to write a dumb function to do it, but this is usually not the most elegant solution and rarely does it scale up to handle more complex data structures. The other option is to serialize the data into xml, but usually these methods suffer from a large performance overhead and should only be used if you can tweak the serializer to work only the right pieces of data.

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Parsing an XML string retrieved using AJAX

Trevor M. — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100

While working on an AJAX function this week, I found the need to parse an XML string using JavaScript and PHP. The following JavaScript was used to retrieve an XML string from a PHP file:

function someJavascriptFunction() {
      xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
      url = "/components/com_component/ajax/ajax.php?task=someTask";
      url += "&cc_number="+document.getElementById('cc_number').value;
      xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);
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