Code example for reading xml data using PHP regular expression

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 @ Read xml file using regular expression
 @ Recoded By Androidyue
 @ site bbs.it-home.org
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 $xml = "";
 //Open the read file in read-only mode
 $f = fopen('person.xml', 'r');
 //Format to get the read data
 while( $data = fread( $f, 4096 ) ) {
 $xml .= $data;
 }
 //Close an open file pointer
 fclose( $f );
 // Read the data above
 preg_match_all( "//(.*?)//s", $xml, $humans ) ; //Match the content in the outermost tag
 //Format data
 foreach( $humans[1] as $k=>$human ){
 preg_match_all( "//(.* ?)//", $human, $name ); //Match the name
 preg_match_all( "//(.*?)//", $human, $sex ); //Match gender
 preg_match_all( "//(.*?)//", $human, $ old ); //Match the age
 }
 //Process the result data
 foreach($name[1] as $key=>$val){
 echo $val." - ".$sex[$key][ 1]." - ".$old[$key][1]."" ;
 }
 ?>