xml parser

PHPMaster.com has a new tutorial posted today about "bending XML to your will" - working with XML data using the XML Parser and SimpleXML functionality already included with PHP.

In a new post to his Test.ical.ly blog Christian Schaefer shows you how to iterate over XML in a more efficient way with the help of the XMLReader and Iterator features that come with PHP.

• phpMudnames
• AJAX Paginator
• PHP Mud Names
• Ray Feed Reader
• Currency Converter

Anemone is a free, multi-threaded Ruby web spider framework from Chris Kite, which is useful for collecting information about websites.

With Anemone you can write tasks to generate some interesting statistics on a site just by giving it the URL.

Feedzirra is an all-new Ruby feed parsing (it's not a generator) library by Paul Dix.

The choice of feed parsing libraries in Ruby has been reasonably limited so far, so Feedzirra is a most welcome addition to the Ruby ecosystem.

Yesterday, Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) and Mike Dalessio released Nokogiri (Github repository), a new HTML and XML parser for Ruby.