Re: [syndication] PHP tool for parsing RSS1.0?

[Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@trainedmonkey.com>]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:31:58PM -0700, Dave Winer wrote:
> Even more interesting.
> 
> Now -- is it round-trip?

no, this is just an ad-hoc format useful for debugging purposes.
(there's also a similar one, generated by the var_dump() function, that
contains more of the type information for each value. there's also a
var_export() function that exports a variable as php code that i guess
could be considered a bit of a serialization format.)

> Is there code in PHP that reads information output in this format?

not that i'm aware of. (but php does support other serialization
formats, including a terse internal one with the serialize() and
unserialize() functions, and more standardized ones like wddx.)

jim