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XML to HTML PHP Simplexml Translation Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday’s HTML Data Intelligence More Like XML Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, talked about the HTML5<\/a> Global Attributes under the umbrella of HTML data-* Attribute<\/a> usage.<\/p>\n

You might remember from that …<\/p>\n

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Along the way doing this we want to mention PHP’s simplexml methods you can read about at this link<\/a>, which are powerful if you know what the data structure involved is. But today we are writing a home grown translator (or XML parser) to translate XML to HTML in a more “act dumb” generic sense, where you assume no knowledge of the data structure. We acknowledge that it may fall over for some data, especially as the concept is in its infancy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

… and that PHP simplexml<\/a> usage was best “if you know what the data structure involved is”<\/i>. But in that statement we’d neglected the “onion of the 4th dimension”<\/a> wonders of PHP’s eval<\/a> method, and so, today, we allow PHP simplexml methods to team up with PHP eval to preanalyze XML input data to see<\/i> whether it can be parsed without knowing ahead of time what that XML data structure entails … cute, huh?! Think, personally, PHP eval (and Javascript eval) are responsible for more “cute, huh?!’s” than any other bits of functionality. Of course, you must factor in that a lot of people either think of eval as …<\/p>\n