[TYPO3-dev] parsing xml

[Steffen Kamper]

"Daniel Pötzinger" <operation-lan at gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1205789626.13436.typo3->>
> Maybe xml2tree helps you there but the returned array is special.
>
takes a long time and the array is very special (you mentioned)

> Otherwise the best way might be to write your own parsing function to deal 
> with the format you have using the php xml functions (like xml2array does 
> it).
>

sure, but it doesn't help others. The problem is that this mostly match the 
certain format and isn't general enough for next time.
Then the next author needs one too and writes his own a.s.o.
As xml is a very common fileformat for data exchange it would be so useful 
to have proper lib for that.

vg  Steffen