WXML

WXML is created to simplify everyday work with XML files. When created, it was tried to be analoguous of SimpleXMLElement but with support of namespaces.

Examples

You can trace path as you would do it with SimpleXMLElement:

$a = new WXML('<root><qa><question>the answer to life the universe and everything</question><answer>42</answer></qa></root>');
echo (string)$a->root->qa->answer;

Outputs:

42

Namespace example:

$xml = <<DOC
<xs:root xmlns:xs="http://example.org">
  <xs:qa>
    <que:question xmlns:q="http://question.org">
    How is it going?
    </que:question>
    <ans:answer xmlns:ans="http://answer.org">
    Fine.
    </ans:answer>
  </xs:qa>
  <qa xmlns="http://unusual.org">
    <que:question xmlns:q="http://question.org">
    How are you doing?
    </que:question>
    <ans:answer xmlns:ans="http://answer.org">
    Fine.
    </ans:answer>
  </qa>
</xs:root>

DOC; $xml = new WXML($xml); // get all answers (yes, without dealing with namespaces) $p[] = $xml->root->qa->answer; // let's took only the second question $xml->registerNamespace('http://unusual.org', 'q'); $p[] = $xml->root->{'q:qa'}->answer; foreach ($p as $t) { echo $t->asXML()."\n"; }

Assumptions

Current assumptions:

1. We only work with utf-8 version of xml.
2. I don't think that we should initialize object with the root element of xml as it does in SimpleXMLElement.
3. There is no schema validations yet.