What's the best way to work with XML files?

[ozwolverine]

Hello, I have to work with an OpenOffice 2 xml file like the shown below, I was wondering what is the best way (what libraries, packages to use) to be able to read it, look for certain tags, remove tags, add tags, and save the file again to disk?

[code]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<office:document-content xmlns:office="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0" xmlns:style="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0" xmlns:text="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0" xmlns:table="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:table:1.0" xmlns:draw="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0" xmlns:fo="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:xsl-fo-compatible:1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:meta="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:meta:1.0" xmlns:number="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:datastyle:1.0" xmlns:svg="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0" xmlns:chart="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:chart:1.0" xmlns:dr3d="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:dr3d:1.0" xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:form="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:form:1.0" xmlns:script="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:script:1.0" xmlns:ooo="http://openoffice.org/2004/office" xmlns:ooow="http://openoffice.org/2004/writer" xmlns:oooc="http://openoffice.org/2004/calc" xmlns:dom="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" office:version="1.0">
<office:scripts/>
<office:font-face-decls>
<style:font-face style:name="DejaVu Sans" svg:font-family="&apos;DejaVu Sans&apos;" style:font-pitch="variable"/>
<style:font-face style:name="Nimbus Roman No9 L" svg:font-family="&apos;Nimbus Roman No9 L&apos;" style:font-family-generic="roman" style:font-pitch="variable"/>
<style:font-face style:name="Nimbus Sans L" svg:font-family="&apos;Nimbus Sans L&apos;" style:font-family-generic="swiss" style:font-pitch="variable"/>
</office:font-face-decls>
<office:automatic-styles/>
<office:body>
<office:text>
<office:forms form:automatic-focus="false" form:apply-design-mode="false"/>
<text:sequence-decls>
<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Illustration"/>
<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Table"/>
<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Text"/>
<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/>
</text:sequence-decls>
<text:p text:style-name="Standard">página unica</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="P1">Hoja2</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="P1">Hoja3</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="P1">Hoja4</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="P1">Hoja5</text:p>
</office:text>
</office:body>
</office:document-content>
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Thanks a lot for any help,

[ToonMariner]

[url=http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php]http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php[/url]

[ozwolverine]

Thanks a lot,

I got very valuable information on it.

[Barand]

if PHP 5, look at http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php