Handling data in XML parser

[Kon-Tiki]

Hey, I've got an XML parser that reads an RSS feed, and it should take out the title, date and first paragraph of the latest entry and show that.

I got it to show all entries, including the header info ( ), and can do HTML formating so that the title's in bold, date's underlined and the actual entry's in italic, but...

Tim W.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701199.post-29495624028221418612007-05-29T21:48:00.000-07:002007-05-29T05:56:44.338-07:00

Between the actual entry and the date, I get that, in plain text, so not underlined, italic, or such, except the 2007-05-29T05:56:44.338-07:00 part.

I'm now wondering how I can keep that out and how I can reformat the 2007-05-29T05:56:44.338-07:00 part to be more readable, plus how I can show the info of only the last entry, and only the first paragraph of the entry. It doesn't seem like I can do that with any function, and the way you have to use a separate function for the data, it doesn't allow you to say: "Handle the data from this tag this way."

Any help is highly appreciated.

[Kon-Tiki]

Anybody got any ideas?

[Kon-Tiki]

Anybody?

[byron3@earthlink]

1. Put the title, date and entry in a blog object. ( Yes I would build a blog class.)
2. Put all blog objects into an array.
3. Iterate through the array and get the last timestamp.

Is the blog marked up with html? Can you use a string function to search for the <p> tag? If not how many spaces is the second paragraph indented?

[Kon-Tiki]

The blog uses HTML, yep. Each paragraph's separated by two <br />-tags. There's no such things as a <p>-tag in there, though.

The class idea's a good one, but it still leaves the problem of telling the data handling function what it's dealing with currently. At the moment, I'm using a global var for that, but that feels like patchwork, not like the way it should be done.

[byron3@earthlink]

$testdata = "W.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701199.post-29495624028221418612007-05-29T21:48:00.000-07:002007-05-29T05:56:44.338-07:00";

$parts = explode( "post-", $testdata);
print_r( $parts );
echo "<br>";

$post_parts = explode( "-", $parts[1] );
print_r( $post_parts );
echo "<br>";

$post_ID = substr( $post_parts[0], 0, strlen( $post_parts[0]-4 ));
print_r( $post_ID );
echo "<br>";

$post_Year = substr( $post_parts[0], -4 );
echo "Year : " .$post_Year. "<br>" ;

$post_Month = $post_parts[1];
echo "Month : " .$post_Month. "<br>";

$Day_Time = explode("T", $post_parts[2] );
print_r( $Day_Time ); 

How do you want to slice up this info, this will show just a little of how to slice and dice this up.

$paragraphs = explode( "<br><br><br><br>", $blog_text ); 

Is there a new line character in there "\n" ?

[Kon-Tiki]

I'm perfectly capable of doing string functions, but my questions were this:

1) How does the data handling function (so not the tag-starting or -stopping ones) know which tag is being handled? Its setup doesn't allow it to be passed on as parameter.
2) How do I get the data from last entry only?