Title: Build In XML Parser?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Build In XML Parser?

 *  [forceagainstsomething](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forceagainstsomething/)
 * (@forceagainstsomething)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-in-xml-parser/)
 * Well I’ve searched the Codex, and couldn’t find anything. Does WordPress have
   any built in functions for reading/parsing XML documents? I could write my own
   for my plugin, buy why bother if the functions are already available for the 
   plugin to use.
 * – Sean

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-in-xml-parser/#post-301147)
 * wordpress itself I believe uses Magpie for parsing things like RSS feeds, while
   I steer people toward my CG-FeedRead solution if they want something lighter-
   weight.
 * FeedRead uses quick-n-dirty hand-crafted parsing, leveraging early PHP extensions.
   I’m not sure, but I thought magpie maybe used the DOM XML parser (another PHP
   extension) — certainly I have seen a number of people use xtree or other compiled
   traversals.
 * All depends on what you want to do, how ‘heavy a load’ you want for doing it,
   and how much extra code you want to write. 😉
 * -d
 *  [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vxjasonxv/)
 * (@vxjasonxv)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-in-xml-parser/#post-301177)
 * PHP5
    and SimpleXML [http://php.net/simplexml](http://php.net/simplexml) 🙂
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-in-xml-parser/#post-301190)
 * That presumes PHP5 (which still isn’t widespread), and that you know the construction
   of the XML. Which is why it’d be good to find out what XML is he looking to parse.
   😉
 *  Thread Starter [forceagainstsomething](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forceagainstsomething/)
 * (@forceagainstsomething)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-in-xml-parser/#post-301292)
 * Thanks for the responses. While SimpleXML would be a great solution, like davidchait
   said, that would make my plugin unusable for people not running PHP 5.
    If WordPress
   uses Magpie, then that’s great. But I need to know the names of the XML functions
   and their API. If I knew which include file the functions were defined it, I 
   could look into it myself.
 * Thanks!
    – Sean [http://www.headzoo.com](http://www.headzoo.com)
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-in-xml-parser/#post-301317)
 * `/wp-includes/rss-functions.php`
 *  [yuniar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuniar/)
 * (@yuniar)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/build-in-xml-parser/#post-301588)
 * I Use DOMIT xml parser to write my plugin.
    It’s written purely in PHP and should
   therefore run on any Web hosting platform with PHP 4 and above installed.
 * Take a look at [http://freshmeat.net/projects/domit/](http://freshmeat.net/projects/domit/)

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