Php/xml/css

HiImFreddy

Hi all, I've got a little question for you all.

For the last week, I had been working on a Flash/XML presentation which finally got completed. Now that it's completed, I thought it would be an enjoyable experience to create a static presentation using the same XML data with PHP.

Now I'm not too fluent w/ XML at this point and the more I read about it, the more I've come to understand how much I have to fix in the Flash/XML presentation. But that's beside the point...

Anyways, I looked around for an example of an XML parser in PHP and it seems relatively simple. My question is, how would I go about adding CSS functionality to the XML tags. I added HTML tags within the XML doc and I have just read it's a very bad thing to do...

This was how I was previously having the text work w/ CSS.

<xmlTag><h1>TItle</h1></xmlTag>

But is there a better way of doing this? Actually, what is the RIGHT way of doing all this stuff?

Any help would be rad. Thanks a ton guys. 🙂

bubblenut

Well, if you're hoping for it to be viewed in regular browsers you're probably better off using XSLT to transform the XML doc into XHTML and then applying your CSS to that.
Have a check at php.net
and here's a tutorial on it.

HTH
Bubble

HiImFreddy

Yeah, this is perfect. Ironicly, I just starting looking into XSLT due to some reading... I guess that'll be the way I move.

Thanks a ton for the help and resources.

HiImFreddy

One little thing I picked up...

Another way of going about this is to use the !CDATA[] method in between the XML tags. I actually used that method for the time being since it seemed to be the quickest for immediate use.

Anyways, I just thought I'd throw that out there.