Chapter 5. PHP and Web Distributed Data eXchange (WDDX)
“Beam me up, Scotty!”
—Captain James T. Kirk, “Star Trek”
The preceding chapters have focused primarily on parsing XML documents with a strong emphasis on producing content for web browsers. Although accomplishing this is no mean feat—in fact, it’s one of the most popular ways to use the XML/PHP combo—it’s just the tip of the XML iceberg.
You’ll remember from my opening remarks that XML provides constructs to encode any type of information in a standard, machine-readable format. This makes XML the ideal vehicle for information exchange over the web. All that’s needed is an encoding format ...
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