Následující kód načte (analyzuje, "parsuje") XML dokument s knihami a informace o nich vypíše (převzato z Reading and writing the XML DOM with PHP Using the DOM library, SAX parser and regular expressions, Jack Herrington, IBM 2005)
<?php
$g_books = array();
$g_elem = null;
function startElement( $parser, $name, $attrs )
{
global $g_books, $g_elem;
if ( $name == 'BOOK' ) $g_books []= array();
$g_elem = $name;
}
function endElement( $parser, $name )
{
global $g_elem;
$g_elem = null;
}
function textData( $parser, $text )
{
global $g_books, $g_elem;
if ( $g_elem == 'AUTHOR' ||
$g_elem == 'PUBLISHER' ||
$g_elem == 'TITLE' )
{
$g_books[ count( $g_books ) - 1 ][ $g_elem ] = $text;
}
}
$parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler( $parser, "startElement", "endElement" );
xml_set_character_data_handler( $parser, "textData" );
$f = fopen( 'books.xml', 'r' );
while( $data = fread( $f, 4096 ) )
{
xml_parse( $parser, $data );
}
xml_parser_free( $parser );
foreach( $g_books as $book )
{
echo $book['TITLE']." - ".$book['AUTHOR']." - ";
echo $book['PUBLISHER']."\n";
}
?>