Chapter 28. Working with XML

This chapter introduces you to working with XML documents via PHP, but in no way is it comprehensive entire books have been written on this topic alone because there are several methods for accessing XML data using PHP functions. However, for people new to XML, or new to XML manipulation via PHP, some sets of functions are more manageable than othersthis chapter introduces you to two of them.

In this chapter you will learn

• How to create a basic XML document structure

• How to access XML in PHP using DOM functions

• How to access XML in PHP using SimpleXML functions