Topic: XML Parsing

[mentalist]

I'm playing with twitter. I'm receiving an xml document and using preg_match_all on it. What i'm wanting to do is split it on the <user> tags. This is the code i'm trying...

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preg_match_all('#<user>([.\s\n]*)</user>#',$s,$matches);

I've tried variations, all to no avail.
I'm actually unsure about the hash / pound 's at either end, but the example I got it from uses them...

Not sure if it's the angle brackets and such that's playing up...


Thanks for any help!

[thorpe]

There is the simplexml() extension which is useful for parsing xml.

[cags]

The hash signs are correct and are one of many characters that you can use for delimiters. The problem is since you use the dot assertion inside a character class it has no special meaning, it will literally match only a dot. So you pattern looks for user tags that contains 0 or more fullstops or white-space characters. I assume your user tags have more than that between them.

But as thorpe said, you should really use a proper xml parser.