Php -> Xml -> Xhtml

[leet_box]

My environment is:

Linux : MySQL 4.1.x : PHP5

I am working on a system where I would be abel to seperate Application/Data and presentation.

My current plan is to have PHP build the XML document. And then have a seperate static XSL to transform it.

Everything is well when I let the cient handle the transformation. (as I can configure apache to send .xml files through the PHP parser) But I would like to use PHP's built in XML-XSL transformer to form the xhtml for old browser compatibility.

I can't seem to figure out how to get my PHP fiel to produce the XML output and still be read by the xsltprocessor.

I don't want actually write to an XML file, because this script will actually generate the XML output every time the script is called.

I am looking (with no luck) for a way that I can parse a file.php to a string. (I tried using the output buffer, but I soon found that callign the buffer twice was a really bad idea)

Here is the code that I have.

/* Load the two XML sources */
$xml = new DomDocument; // from /ext/dom
$xml->load('test.php'); //I want this test.php to be run through the PHP engine so I get the XML that it is intended to output. 

$xsl = new DomDocument;
$xsl->load('index.xsl');

/* Configure the transformer */
$proc = new xsltprocessor;
$proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules
echo $proc->transformToXML($xml); // actual transformation

If anyone has a better idea for doing the same thing, I would welcome that as well.

Thanks for the help (In advance)
-leet.box

[leet_box]

I figured out a solution to the problem.

I spent a little bit of time talking to my local RPG guru (helps me get out of the box) and decided that instead of creating a script to produce XML, I will create an object that will produce a string containing the XML.

Porblem solved... at least for now.

Thanks anyway.

Here is an example of what I mean

$xml_string = "
<channel>
	<title>H3110 Blog</title>
	<link>[censored]</link>
	<description></description>
	<language>en-us</language>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:52:24 -0500</lastBuildDate>
	<item>
		<title>
			Crap!
		</title>
		<link>
			[censored]
		</link>
		<description>
			We knew they'd find a real use for carbon...
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>
			Woot is the word of the year
		</title>
		<link>
			[censored]
		</link>
		<description>
			Carbon Rocks my world
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>
			Woot is really spelled W00t  and anyone that does it wrong should die. 
		</title>
		<link>
			[censored]
		</link>
		<description>
			I hate you. 
		</description>
	</item>
</channel>
";
/* Load the two XML sources */
$xml = new DomDocument; // from /ext/dom
$xml->loadXML($xml_string);

$xsl = new DomDocument;
$xsl->load('index.xsl');

/* Configure the transformer */
$proc = new xsltprocessor;
$proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules
echo $proc->transformToXML($xml); // actual transformation