I need for a Zend Framework based application to be able to parse an XML document to retrieve some informations.

I am wondering if there is/not a XML parser included into Zend Framework, i didn't saw any... Only a Zend_DB_XML (which seems to be into incubator now)...

If there is no parser included into Zend Framework then what parser should i used better ?

LOL, i don't think will be ever a PHP parser into Zend Framework.

Reasons:
- there are lot of options in PHP 5, directly as PHP modules: DOM, SimpleXML, XMLReader and so on, and they would work faster than something built in PHP

Check this tutorial about XML options in PHP5 and speed concerns...

- i don't think ZF should replace everything done before over PHP platform

Personally i am using SimpleXML, because of simplicity, combined with XPath is great to solve lot of problems...

Mmm, this post make me think about adding maybe an additional resource section, for third party tools which are good to be used with ZF, to work together...

Thanks,

Interesting tutorial...

DOM is probably the most powerful but complicated to use, SimpleXML is "simple" and XMLReader even more simple.

ZendExt will do it: ( Main Page - Zend Extension).

if you just need to read an xml file in and want to access it like a multi-dimensional array you can fakey it, by using Zend_Config_Xml...

Not very usefull for writing new xml files and structures tho...