Question

I’m working on a website that uses a lot of XML-files as data (150 in total and probably growing). Each page is an XML-file.

What I’m looking for is a way to look for a string through the XML-files. I’m not sure what programming language to use for this XML search engine.

I’m familiar with PHP, JavaScript, JQuery. So I’d prefer using those languages.

Thanks a bunch!

UPDATE: I’m looking for a solution that works quickly.

Ideally, the function returns the tagname that contains the searchstring.
If, for instance, the XML is as follows:

<article-1>This is a great story.</article-1>

If one would search for ‘story’, it would return ‘article-1’.
I’m not quite sure on how to do this with a regular expression.

Answer 1

PHP can do this. Here’s an example:

foreach(glob("{foldera/*.xml,folderb/*.xml}",GLOB_BRACE) as $filename) {
   $xml = simplexml_load_file($filename);
   //use regular expressions to find your string
}

You simply iterate through each file on your server using glob() with a foreach loop.