(newbie) how to parse sub/nodes from this xml structure?

Submitted by baldisserri on Sat, 2008-03-15 02:07 in Magic Parser

Hello to everybody. I don't understand how to parse the image. I have the following schemas:

<merchant>

<product id="1323" number="4">

<affiliateprogram id="218322" />

<info>

	  <name>bla</name>

	  					  <description state="short">here the short description</description>

						  <description state="long">the long description</description>

</info>

<category />

		  <links>

		  		 <deeplink>http://www.site.ext/?id=2</deeplink>

				 <image state="medium">

				 		<url>http://images.site.ext/images1.gif</url>

				 </image>

		  </links>

		  <state>1</state>

		  <date state="update">2007-08-08T11:42:00</date>

		  <offer>

		  		 <currentprice currency="EUR">9.95</currentprice>

		  </offer>

</product>

I was using this:

<?php

  require("/MagicParser.php");

  $records = array(); // global array of records to pick from later

  MagicParser_parse("productdata.xml","myRecordHandler","xml|MERCHANT/PRODUCT/");

  shuffle($records);

?> 

<?php

  $count = 0;

  function myRecordHandler($record)

  {

    global $count;

    echo '<p><img src='.$record["LINKS/URL"].' border=0 >'.$record["INFO/DESCRIPTION"].', '.$record["LINKS/URL"].' <br />';

    echo 'Euro '.$record["OFFER/CURRENTPRICE"].''.$record["PRICE-CURRENCY"].' &nbsp;<a href="'.$record["LINKS/DEEPLINK"].'" target="_blank">Go</a></p>';

    $count++;

    if ($count == 25) return TRUE;

  }

?>

but I cannot show the image. What is wrong?
Also, how to select "short" or "long" description?

Thank you very much

Hi, From studying the XML in

Submitted by support on Sat, 2008-03-15 02:35

Hi,

From studying the XML in your post, for the image you need to use:

$record["LINKS/IMAGE/URL"]

...and for the different descriptions, the second description in the feed will be differentiated using @1, so you need to use:

$record["INFO/DESCRIPTION@1"]

Don't forget the print_r($record) trick if you want to see what is being passed to myRecordHandler(); for example:

  print_r($record);

  exit();

Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.

Thanks David for quick help,

Submitted by baldisserri on Sat, 2008-03-15 11:10

Thanks David for quick help, now it works perfectly :-)

A question: where to put the trick

  print_r($record);

  exit();

Hi, You would just put that

Submitted by support on Sat, 2008-03-15 11:12

Hi,

You would just put that right inside myRecordHandler(), for example:

<?php
  function myRecordHandler($record)
  {
    print_r($record);
    exit();
  }
?>

This will show you what is in $record!

Cheers,
David.