PHP and XML

The book introduces the reader in detail to the XML language and the possibilities of its processing in PHP. In addition to describing the individual interfaces such as SAX, XMLReader, DOM and SimpleXML, it also focuses on explaining the very basics of XML and related technologies such as XML Schema, XPath and XSLT. The book is supplemented by a large number of practical examples that can be downloaded from the book's companion website. Technologies that are based on the use of basic XML technologies such as web services and AJAX are not left out. The book also explains concepts less familiar to many novice developers, such as namespaces, Unicode character sets and their encoding, and the advanced validation technologies RELAX NG and Schematron.