For Developers

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Requirements

• Php 8.0 or higher
• Git

Php

To check if you have a compatible version of Php installed, use the following command:

php -V

You can find the latest version of Php here.

Git

Install the latest version of Git.

Download Code

In order to work on code, create a fork from GitHub page. Use Git for cloning the code to your local or below line for Ubuntu:

git clone <your-fork-git-link>

A directory called XmlParser will be created. Or you can use below link for exploring the code:

git clone https://github.com/starlangsoftware/XmlParser-Php.git

Open project with PhpStorm IDE

Steps for opening the cloned project:

• Start IDE
• Select File | Open from main menu
• Choose XmlParser-Php file
• Select open as project option
• Couple of seconds, dependencies will be downloaded.

Detailed Description

In order to load an xml document, we use the constructor

$doc = new XmlDocument($fileName)

and parse with the parse method

$doc->parse()

Root node of the document can be obtained via the getFirstChild method:

$rootNode = $doc->getFirstChild()

For example, to iterate over the first level tags in the xml file one can use

$rootNode = $doc->getFirstChild()
$childNode = $rootNode->getFirstChild()
while ($childNode){
  ...
  $childNode = $childNode->getNextSibling()
}

Tag name can be obtained via getName, pcData via getPcData methods.