XLST Processing

ScottyB

Excuse me if you saw this already in the newbie section, but perhaps it maybe better if posted in here.....

Hi, I am a PHP newbie and would like to parse xml files on my site

I have managed to do the following successfully

// Xml and XSL files
$xml_file = "myfile.xml";

$xsl_file = "myfile.xsl";

// Allocate a new XSLT processor
$xh = xslt_create();
$fileBase = 'file://' . getcwd () . '/';
xslt_set_base ( $xh, $fileBase );

// Process the document
$result = xslt_process($xh, $xml_file, $xsl_file);
if (!$result) {
// Something croaked. Show the error
echo 'XSLT processing error: ' .xslt_error($xh) ;
}
else {
// Output the resulting HTML
echo $result;
}

// Destroy the XSLT processor
xslt_free($xh);

But now I would like to know how to parse none local xml files ? i.e.

$xml_file = "http://somewebsite/theirxml.xml";

I know it is not the baove because I get an invalid token error :-/

Could someone please point me in the right direction ?
Thanks
Scott

Norman_Graham

Hi Scotty

Convert the remote file to a string:

file_get_contents

In my stuff, I have often done this:

$xml_string = join(' ', file($xml_file));

This works, as the following XML/XSLT website proves (all in German, I'm afraid). I've made the XML/XSLT available for anyone who fancies having a go. However, if you are all at sea with the German, then try this website made by a friend of mine - Edward Tanguay, allround genius. It shows you how to get an XML/XSLT website running in minutes. It's set up for ASP, but my website provides the equivalent PHP code.

HTH

Norm

PS: I've never managed to overcome non-standard character problems with XSLT processing. I have no idea why - I tried everything with UTF / Latin-1 conversion. I just always got a 'bad token' error. I have concluded that I don't understand enough about the problem to fix it. My solution was to do a double search and replace - once on the XML string and then once again on the HTML prior to output. Check out the PHP code in my website to see what I mean.

ScottyB

Thank you very much, Norm

just what I needed :-)

Thanks, again
ScottyB