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[doheja07]

Are there any technologies available that will let me work with XML in a similar way to the way I am able to work with PHP? I am working on building a store. The company I am working with is providing me with an XML datafeed of all their products. This way, if a product is out of stock, if they add a new product, if there is a new category, etc. my website can be updated more quickly. If this was data in a MySQL database, I would have no problem creating this site. In PHP I can create relational databases so that I can create one function that can look up the category id and find all the products that are related to that category. This function would be completely dynamic so adding a new catagory wouldn't require any additional programming. Are there any technologies for XML that would allow me to do something similar to this?

[ReignInChaos]

Surely, you can incorporate XML into your site that will interpret the XML that you get from the company. For example they will have their own DTD that defines how their tags are written and you can use those tags in your site.