xslt_process() problems

Moonglobe

i'm trying to use xslt_process to process my xml file, but it's not working. this is the code:

<?php
$xh = xslt_create();
$xml = join('',file("sample.xml"));
$xsl = join('',file("sample.xsl"));
$result = @xslt_process($xh, $xml, $xsl);
if (!$result)
{
    die(sprintf("Cannot process XSLT document [%d]: %s",xslt_errno($xh), xslt_error($xh)));
}
echo $result;
xslt_free($xh);
?>

this is the error:

Cannot process XSLT document [2]: XML parser error 4: not well-formed (invalid token)

this is the XML:

<page>
</page>

this is the XSL:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output indent="yes"
            doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
            doctype-system="http://www.w3c.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/page">
    <html>
        <head>
            <title>IT WORKS!!!!!</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <h1>yay this works</h1>
        </body>
    </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

i have no idea what this means..... it says not well formed but i didnt think xslt_process looked at the DTD, and besides there isn't one specified.... i even tried taking out the XML declarations because it says 'invalid token', but that didnt help. anyone have any idea what's wrong?

Moonglobe

ok sorry for being so quick to bumb but i'm kind anxious -- i've been helping other ppl for hours though so don't i deserve one? 😃

anyway, it doesn't seem like many ppl r on so i migh just have to w8 for the morning. which is depressing because i've been poring over this one for days. 🙁

Weedpacket

Here's a quick rundown of my adventures over the last ten minutes:

Zeroth of all, when an XML file is not "well-formed", it means that, no matter what the DTD may be, the file can't be valid: mis-nested tags, missing tags, or something like that.

First (and all this was on a Window system), PHP segfaulted on me when I ran your code. Ick. Coredump all over the floor. Seems since 4.0.6 you don't pass the XML itself, but - as it turns out - filenames.
$xml = "c:\sample.xml";
$xsl = "c:\sample.xsl";

Second, I get the error you describe; on line 5, which isn't a huge amount of help... Okay ... more prolonged staring at the manual page (not one of the most well-written, to be sure) ... Um, there's a note here just before the user notes saything that "file:// is needed in front of path" if I'm using Windows. Um, yeah, whatever .... the only "paths" I see would be those two filenames, so let's have a crack:
$xml = "file://c:\sample.xml";
$xsl = "file://c:\sample.xsl";

Third try:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/
xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>IT WORKS!!!!!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>yay this works</h1>
  </body>
</html>

I guess that's a success. Dunno why it was going wrong the way it was - maybe a null string (from a faulty "path') doesn't qualify as well-formed XML ... yep, §2.1 of the XML1.0 Spec states as much. That answers that then.

Does that get you any closer to a solution? I recognise most of that is probably useless on a non-Windows box.

Moonglobe

omg thank you SO much! ill go try it right away....... hope this works 😃😃😃

/mr crosses fingers....

Moonglobe

YES IT WORKS! now if i can just get my webhost to re-compile with xslt support....... :p :mad: :rolleyes: 🙂

Weedpacket

Glad to help.