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Since Craur is able to parse XML/HTML easily (by using DOMDocument, BUT not XPath under the hood), you might want to know from what diversity of headaches it safes you.

DOMDocument::loadXML/loadHTML and UTF-8: It does not like non-utf8 strings.

You have to work around this, by using iconv/mbstring:

<?php
$xml_string = iconv($encoding, 'utf-8', $xml_string);
$node = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$is_loaded = $node->loadXML($xml_string, LIBXML_NOCDATA | LIBXML_NOWARNING | LIBXML_NOERROR);
if (!$is_loaded)
{
    throw new Exception('Invalid xml: ' . $xml_string);
}

In the previous blog post we looked at parsing/generating xml with craur.

Today we'll check, how you can parse csv (even xlsx) files with craur. Craur is a json/xml/csv/xlsx to json/xml/csv/xlsx conversion library.

Usually you might use fgetcsv or some custom code to parse csv, but with craur we have a a simple api for any of those formats, with a consistent api when it comes to throwing exception.

Some of you might have heard or used my json/xml/csv/xlsx to json/xml/csv/xlsx conversion library called craur.

It advocates a simple api for any of those formats, instead of simplexml_load_string or other php built in functions, which are usually not consistent when it comes to throwing exceptions or warnings.

Today we'll look into an example, how to use craur to generate and parse a sitemap.xml.

If you are working with vagrant machines and provision those machines with puppet, you will find plenty of good modules at puppetforge and of course at github.

But in both cases you will download a specific version of the module and clone it into a directory called modules.

# e.g. for stdlib and nginx module
modules\
  nginx
  stdlib

Setting up windows machines with vagrant, is pretty good supported. To have less problems, you might want to use vagrant-windows plugin.

Since the windows version relies on Microsoft's PowerShell, you usually want to use the PowerShell Community Extensions.

To ensure that those are installed, you have to provision this package by using for instance puppet.

But, since pscx is only available as .zip-File, we need to install 7-Zip in first place.