{"id":1392,"date":"2018-01-19T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goofy-trucks.flywheelsites.com\/dynamic-xml-conversion-using-the-sax-parser\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:24:45","slug":"dynamic-xml-conversion-using-the-sax-parser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/dynamic-xml-conversion-using-the-sax-parser\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic XML Conversion Using the SAX Parser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By PHP Builder Staff<\/div>\n
on April 28, 2003<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\nThis article describes an alternative way of converting XML to HTML using the SAX parser.
\nFor each tag you want to convert, you write a conversion function. This function is called
\nwith two arguments: contents and attributes. The return value of the function will replace
\nthe tag and its contents in the finished document. <\/div>\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n
\nWe all know it: XML is great. (If you don’t, look at some of the great articles at this site.)
\nBut why is it so complicated to use? You have to learn about DTDs, XSLTs, DOM, XPATH, XPOINTER…
\nthis is a lot of work, and most of these techniques are not really neccessary to build a website. <\/div>\n
\nIn this article you will learn how to build a simple converter for your XML.<\/div>\n
\nThe idea is this: You have a web page in clean XHTML. The biggest part of the html will be
\ntables, menu images and other design stuff. So why not replace the 30 kilobyte code for the
\nmenu with a nice little “<menu \/>”? <\/div>\n
\nWhen the document is opened from a webserver, a small php script replaces the <menu \/>-tag with
\nthe correct table HTML. So you have a much cleaner document, and the end result is the same. You
\ncan compose your whole page using these meta-tags, and even dynamic tags like <uppercase> or
\n<showdate \/> are easy to program.<\/div>\n
\nThese are the steps we will take:<\/div>\n
\nThink up a set of tags that can be used to build an example website. <\/div>\n
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