[Cialug] xml

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:50:28 -0600

I've gotten the following error message:

 Call to undefined function:  xml_parser_create() in
*/home/ralph/public_html/xml9/script_09_06.php* on line *58*
The code is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>XML Parser</title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
<?php # parse.php (second version)

// This script will parse an XML file, which it takes as an argument.

// Define some constants to represent the greater than and less than symbols.
define ('LT', '<font color="blue">&lt;</font>');
define ('GT', '<font color="blue">&gt;</font>');

// Define the functions required for handling the different pieces.
function handle_open_element ($p, $element, $attributes) {
	$element = strtolower($element);
	switch ($element) {
		case 'cover_image':
			$image = @getimagesize ($attributes['FILENAME']);
			echo "<img src=\"{$attributes['FILENAME']}\" $image[3] border=\"0\"><br />\n";
			break;
		case 'song':
			echo '      ' . LT . '<font color="red">' . $element . '</font>';
			foreach ($attributes as $key => $value) {
				echo ' <font color="green">' . strtolower($key) . '="' . $value . '"</font>';
			}
			echo GT;
			break;
		case 'collection':
			echo LT . '<font color="red">' . $element . '</font>' . GT . '<br />';
			break;
		case 'album':
			echo LT . '<font color="red">' . $element . '</font>' . GT . '<br />';
			break;
		default:
			echo '   ' . LT . '<font color="red">' . $element . '</font>' . GT;
			break;
	}
}

function handle_close_element ($p, $element) {
	$element = strtolower($element);
	if ($element != 'cover_image') {
		echo LT . '<font color="red">/' . $element . '</font>' . GT . '<br />';
	}
}

function handle_character_data ($p, $cdata) {
	echo "<b>$cdata</b>";
}

// End of the functions.

// Create the parser and set the handling functions.
$p = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler ($p, 'handle_open_element', 'handle_close_element');
xml_set_character_data_handler ($p, 'handle_character_data');

// Read the file.
$fp = @fopen ($file, 'r') or die ("Could not open a file called: $file");
while ($data = fread ($fp, filesize($file))) {
	if (!xml_parse ($p, $data, feof($fp))) {
		printf("An XML error occurred on line %d: %s.", xml_get_current_line_number($p), xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($p)));
	}
}

// Free up the parser.
xml_parser_free($p);
?>
</pre>
</body>
</html>
I've googled all over the place to find why Mandrake 10 doesn't support xml with PHP and can't seem to find the answer. 
Could someone suggest an answer?
Thanks 