[RESOLVED] Using loadHtmlFile in PHP 5

[robbycraig]

I am trying to use the loadHtmlFile command to do some work with RSS feeds but I have encountered some difficulties.

The following code takes a news feed and prints out the titles in a list.

$dom = new domdocument;

$url = 'http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/uk/rss.xml';

$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);

echo '<h1>BBC UK News Headlines</h1>';
echo '<ul>';

$items = $dom->getElementsByTagName("item");

foreach($items as $item) {

$titles = $item->getElementsByTagName('title');

foreach($titles as $title)
{
	$titleText = $title->firstChild->data;
}

$links = $item->getElementsByTagName('link');

foreach($links as $link)
{
	$linkLoc = $link->firstChild->data;
	echo $linkLoc;
}

echo '<li><a href="' . $linkLoc . '">'.$titleText.'</a></li>';

}

echo '</ul><br/><br/>';

The problem is it will not pull out the links. I can pull out any of the other data from the feed apart from the links.
So it investigate further I used the following command near the top of my code:

echo $dom->saveHtml();

When I look at the source of this the xml for the feed is intact except for one major error each of the links was missing the closing tag </link> hence me not being able to pull out the information.

Why is this? Is it something really simple that I am missing? I have tried this on 3 news feeds now yahoo, google and the BBC.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

[Weedpacket]

One observation I can make here is that RSS XML is not HTML. What happens if you try to load the file as XML instead of as HTML?

[robbycraig]

Yes I fixed my problem by using the DomDocument->load() method.
The reason I was using loadHtmlFile was becuase the code was originally screen scraping before I found an appropriate RSS feed. My mistake. Thanks for your help.