I wrote an article for Zend about all the new XML features in PHP 5. Should hopefully give you a short introduction and general overview.

There are also other very interesting at the PHP 5 in-depth Zend Website:

PHP SOAP Extension by Dmitry Stogov
SQLite Introduction by Ilia Aleshentsky
Tidy up HTML with PHP5 by John Coggleshall
com_dotnet by Wez Furlong
Using ext/mysqli: Part I - Overview and Prepared Statements by Zak Greant and Georg Richter

gab @ 21.03.2004 16:15 CEST
just a question: how does xmlsimple handles tags that are not valid php identifiers?
I mean stuff like or or non ascii alphabetical characters

ben @ 21.03.2004 17:34 CEST
Hmm, fine.

Great Article!

Is the XPATH Class a completet implementation of XPATH? And even Xpointer?

Could say right now, which of these features are going to be default in PHP5?

Thousand Thanks
Benjamin

chregu @ 21.03.2004 18:31 CEST
gab: I don't know, I didn't write simplexml ;) IIRC you can use $node->children() for cirvumventing some of the problems

ben: XPath is complete. XPointer? not sure, it's based on libxml2, so it depends what libxml2 does ;)

simplexml, dom and sax are enabled by default (and therefore xpath). xslt isn't.

jay @ 06.04.2004 09:54 CEST
thanks for your tutorial....
it was good to me.

my question is...

one is...

Does dom-xml implementation in php supoort W3C DOM LEVEL3 or LEVEL2? (I guess.. LEVEL3)

the other is...

How can i get API document for XML-DOM, XSLT (based on libxml2, not sablotron) ?

(sorry, i can't speak english as well...)