Parsing XML created in PHP

[Matt_10]

Hello,

i'm trying to parse a xml string with NSXMLParser which i created in PHP.
My PHP sript is:

$doc = new DomDocument('1.0');
//$doc->preserveWhiteSpace=false;
$root = $doc->createElement("root");
$root = $doc->appendChild($root);
$child = $doc->createElement("child");
$child = $root->appendChild($child);
$value = $doc->createTextNode("testvar");
$value = $child->appendChild($value);
$xml_string = $doc->saveXML();
print $xml_string;


If i open the page in the browser it shows me 'testvar' like it should.
Showing the source it shows me that there're several whitespaces:
begin ->| <?xml version="1.0"?>
<root><child>testvar</child></root>
|<--end

Setting preserveWhitespace to false doesn't change anything.
So i tried with regex in php:
$xml_string1 = preg_replace("/\s+</","<",$xml_string);
$xml_string2 = preg_replace("/>\s+/",">",$xml_string1);
print $xml_string2;

This removes the \n and brings me to this
begin-->| <?xml version="1.0"?><root><child>testvar</child></root> |<--end

In the browser it always shows the wanted result: testvar

On the iphone i get following error:
NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code = 64, Operation could not be completed.

I don't know whats the problem with the xml, i receive it correctly like under This removes the \n ....

I tried to debug but after starting the parser with [parser parse] none of the delegate functions is called (yes, i set the delegate) exept the parserError.
As there're still spaces before and after the xml may this is the reason, but i can't get them out.
In my application on the iPhone i tried different encodings, UTF8 and ASCII.
I also tried to convert the received data to a string, called
stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet
and converted back.

I also set the following:
[parser setShouldProcessNamespaces:NO];
[parser setShouldReportNamespacePrefixes:NO];
[parser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:NO];

I don't know what i'm doing wrong, please help.

Thanks in advance.

[rexmont]

Apple says, it is Misplaced XML declaration.

Take a look at the following page, under "Constants" title there are error codes for NSXMLParser:

Mac Dev Center: NSXMLParser Class Reference

[Matt_10]

Originally Posted by rexmont

Apple says, it is Misplaced XML declaration.

Take a look at the following page, under "Constants" title there are error codes for NSXMLParser:

Mac Dev Center: NSXMLParser Class Reference

Hello,

yes, thanks for the answer but this doesn't help at all.
I forgot to mention that i looked at this, this pointed me in the direction of the whitespaces as i mentioned in my first post. I just don't understand how or what can be misplaced except the whitespaces after (which i get rid of) and before the <?...?>.
I'm aware of working around this by removing the XML declaration. I could just send a comma separated string also and parse it myself as Apple provides no real enhancement in this way anyways.
Still i'd like to use XML as it's standardized and a common format.
Nobody here ever worked with a XML created with PHP?
Why do i get those whitespaces at the beginning?

Oh, by the way, great forum here, helped me more than several books.

Thanks.

[Matt_10]

Found the answer after wasting 1.5 days. PHP also uses a similar notation: <?php ... ?>. Note that the final php ?> should be omitted from all PHP code files—modules, includes, etc. The closing delimiter is optional in PHP (but not in XML), and removing it helps prevent unwanted white space at the end of files which can cause problems
I wasn't aware of that, after removing the f***** closing delimiter it works just fine.

[rexmont]

Glad you solved it.

[gud4nuthin]

right now i am pasring 1 xml from web in appdidfinsih()

but i want to parse 1 more xml before that to get the location of user
so should i edit same xmlparser class for all xml or i have to make new classes for diffrent xml pasrser


plz help

if i use old class then elemnts name will be different