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To be frank how many times in your life as a PHP developer have you had to deal with XML documents Probably dozens of times particularly if you use it to develop PHP applications that implement some kind of web service or possibly when creating RSS feeds and template files for different web sites. And surely the list goes on and on….

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In the golden days, XML parser performance was a perpetually hot topic. And today it’s still worth knowing which modern parsers offer the best performance. In this second of a two-part series, object parsers are compared.

Jason Levitt describes the newly burgeoning field of web authentication APIs, including Yahoo’s BBAuth and Google’s AuthSub.

Reading RSS feeds in PHP: Part 2

Reading RSS feeds in PHP: Part 1

This is the continuation of a three part series. This week we look at transforming XML with XSLT, querying XML with XPath, evaluating XPath Expressions, serializing XML and more. By David Flanagan. 0925

Five years after XML Schema’s release, it has matured into a key XML technology, despite its warts and arguably superior competitors. But how are people actually using it? Paul Kiel’s article this week answers that question.

This week you’ll learn how to use JavaScript to work with XML data. Topics convered are obtaining XML documents, loading a document from the network, parsing XML text, XML documents from data islands and manipulating XML with the DOM API. By David Flanagan. 0918

Lindsey Simon describes XSLDataGrid, an approach to dynamic display of tabular data using XSLT and Ajax.

Dave Hoover returns with an update about canvas-powered web apps, adding interactivity to the method he described in his Supertrain article.

Using XML, Part 5: SOAP and WSDL