import xml into drupal

Posted by Tim Corkerton on July 5, 2009 at 2:53pm

Hi
Does anyone know the best way to go about importing an xml file into drupal.

http://www.digitalmassive.com/test/xml.xml

It is not standard rss or atom.

People have suggested that I write my own parser using FeedAPI but I can't believe it is so difficult.
or perhaps you do something with feedapi_eparser?
Is there any information about doing something like this?
I have also looked at the aggreagation module but there is no information on how to write the feed_handlers
http://drupal.org/project/aggregation
Thanks

Comments

I think FeedAPI with FeedAPI

Posted by nevets on July 5, 2009 at 3:10pm

I think FeedAPI with FeedAPI Exhaustive Parser and Feed Element Mapper may do the trick.

And if that doesn't work ...

Posted by yelvington on July 5, 2009 at 4:09pm

...just write a simple import module. It's not that hard, and the cited XML would be easily parsed by SimpleXML.

Not that hard?

Posted by Wolf_22 on July 31, 2011 at 8:42pm

Not that hard? Seriously...

It might not be *that hard* for an XML file most kids mess with in a cheap tutorial that has between 5 to 100 elements on the same parsing layer but step into a bigger file (i.e. - 8MB+) that has a mix of multiple levels, atomic elements, and specific kinds of specifications, and we'll see how *hard* it really is.

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