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Old October 29th, 2008, 02:22 PM
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Hello,

I am looking to fetch the data between two xml tags.

xml Code:
Original - xml Code 
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  2. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
  3. <userName>Agri</userName>


I would like to fetch "Agri" from the above, unfortunately my server does not have any PHP xml parsers like SimpleXML installed, can this be achieved with regex?

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Yes, but it would be quite cumbersome writing regex every time you want to do so. You would be better downloading a little library from somewhere if your host won't enable the module for you.
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You should have posted this in the regexp forum:
PHP Code:
 preg_match("/<userName>([^<]+)/", $xml, $foo);
echo "Username is {$foo[1]}\n"; 
If you have further questions, use the regexp forum.

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