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[Michael Southwell]

if there is just a limited number of different ones, do it by brute 
force:  clean out each one globally in turn.  This would be easiest and 
probably quickest, again assuming that there are not many many different ones.

At 01:57 AM 1/30/2003, you wrote:
>I have various XML files that might contain <> tags inside the element 
>body, for example:
>
><news id="1" shortDescription="Stuff Happened Today">Today on 
><b>1/29/03</b>, stuff happened</news>
>
>Because of this I can't use xml_parse_into_struct; when I do this happens:
>
>array (
>   ...
>   [attributes] => array (
>                                    [ID] = "1"
>                                    [SHORTDESCRIPTION] = "Stuff Happened 
> Today"
>                                )
>  [values]  = "Today on"
>)
>
>and it stops right there on the <b> tag.
>
>What I need to do is this: Clean out ALL occurrences of <tags> that are 
>NOT part of the original XML structure from the contents read from the XML 
>file:
>
>$fileID = fopen('/phil/xml/news.xml', 'r') or die('Could not open XML');
>$stuff = fread($fileID, filesize('/phil/xml/news.xml'));
>fclose($fileID);
>
>$stuff contains the contents of news.xml, so I would have to do my cleanup 
>in $stuff, BUT.. I can't use preg_replace for tags because then ALL of my 
>tags would be altered and xml_parse_into_struct would fail altogether.
>
>How then do I make sure to ONLY remove the <trash tags> from each XML row 
>body and nowhere else???
>
>Thanx
>Phil
>
>
>
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