xml save problem

[n4ows]

I am reading in an xml file, processing though it and the saving it out to a daily actiivity file. The 2nd line & last line of the initial file looks like this:

<ReportDriver xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="ReportDriver.xsd">
...
</ReportDriver>

However, after it's been though my script one time, the </ReportDriver> is not there and the 2nd line of the daily actitity xml file looks like this:

<ReportDriver xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="ReportDriver.xsd"/>

Notice that that line is terminated with the /> at the end. I am just learning xml, so am really struggling with this. Of couse, when my script runs again, this time against the daily activity xml file, I get an error that the xml is not well formed.

The foreach loop follows:

function xmlParse ($xmlDriver, $dailyActivityDriver) {
  global $debug;
  global $runtime;
  global $server;
  global $pulse;
  $message = "";
  $ReportDOM = new DomDocument;
  $ReportDOM->preserveWhiteSpace = FALSE;
  $ReportDOM->load($xmlDriver, LIBXML_NOBLANKS);
  $root = $ReportDOM->documentElement;
  $xsd = $server."/ReportDriver/ReportDriver.xsd";

  if (isset($ReportDOM) AND $ReportDOM != "") {
    if ($ReportDOM->schemaValidate($xsd)) {
      $template = new DOMDocument("1.0", "UTF-8");
      $xpath = new DOMXPath($ReportDOM);
      $fields = $xpath->query("//Report");
      foreach ($fields as $field) {
        $stamped = stampPulse($pulse);
        if ($field->hasAttributes()) {
          $statusX = $field->getAttribute("status");
        } else {
          $statusX = "idle";
        }
        if ($statusX != "success") {
          $the_client = new theClient($field);
          $domDailyActivity = $the_client->callIT();
          if ($domDailyActivity->hasAttributes()) {
            $status = $domDailyActivity->getAttribute("status");
            $newStatus = $ReportDOM->appendChild($domDailyActivity);
            $newStatus->setAttribute("status",$status);
          }
          $message .= "*** Wrote ". $ReportDOM->save($dailyActivityDriver)." bytes to $dailyActivityDriver\n";
        } else {  // status = "success"
          continue;
        }      // end -- process Report
      }        // end -- foreach (fields as field)
    } else {
      $message .= "$xmlDriver xml document is NOT valid.";
    }
  } else {
    $message .= "DOM is not set or is empty";
  }
  return $message;
}

Does anyone know why I'm getting this terminated line for the ReportDriver when I save it?

[mykg4orce]

post your xml file here?

[n4ows]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<XReportDriver xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="XReportDriver.xsd">
  <Report status="idle">
    <WSDL>Report/XReport.wsdl</WSDL>
    <RequestingAppName>ABC</RequestingAppName>
    <AppReportName>ABC_1</AppReportName>
    <RequestHandlerComponent>XClient.php</RequestHandlerComponent>
    <AccessTicket>S1vONAn=7b4rFa</AccessTicket>
    <XReportName>ZX01AZZZZ/CMRPT41_PDAR_V100</XReportName>
    <ConnectionTimeOut>60</ConnectionTimeOut>
    <RequestFile>XReportQuery/X_Query.xml</RequestFile>
    <ResponseFileLocation>XResponseFile/ABC</ResponseFileLocation>
    <DataHandlerComponent>XData.php</DataHandlerComponent>
    <DataHandlerEntryPoint>processX</DataHandlerEntryPoint>
    <Notification eventSource="RequestHandlerComponent.php" eventSourceCategory="App" eventType="failure">
      <Recipient type="email">
        <Hub></Hub>
        <To>[e-mail]</To>
        <From>[e-mail]</From>
        <CC></CC>
        <Subject>ABC Web Service App Warning</Subject>
        <MimeType></MimeType>
        <Message>The X report service response times are not meeting expected responses times.</Message>
      </Recipient>
    </Notification>
  </Report>
  <Report status="idle">
    <WSDL>Report/XReport.wsdl</WSDL>
    <RequestingAppName>ABC</RequestingAppName>
    <AppReportName>ABC_2</AppReportName>
    <RequestHandlerComponent>XClient.php</RequestHandlerComponent>
    <AccessTicket>S1vONAn=7b4rF8</AccessTicket>
    <XReportName>ZX01AZZZZ/CMRPT42_PDAR_V100</XReportName>
    <ConnectionTimeOut>60</ConnectionTimeOut>
    <RequestFile>XReportQuery/X_Query.xml</RequestFile>
    <ResponseFileLocation>XResponseFile/ABC</ResponseFileLocation>
    <DataHandlerComponent>XData.php</DataHandlerComponent>
    <DataHandlerEntryPoint>processX</DataHandlerEntryPoint>
    <Notification eventSource="RequestHandlerComponent.php" eventSourceCategory="App" eventType="failure">
      <Recipient type="email">
        <Hub></Hub>
        <To>[e-mail]</To>
        <From>[e-mail]</From>
        <CC></CC>
        <Subject>ABC Web Service App Warning</Subject>
        <MimeType></MimeType>
        <Message>The X report service response times are not meeting expected responses times.</Message>
      </Recipient>
    </Notification>
  </Report>
</XReportDriver>

This is the xml file I'm testing with. The first Report node returns a status of success and the 2nd returns a status of failure on the first run. Those 2 lines should be the only differences between this xml file and the daily activity xml file.

[mykg4orce]

whats the name of the xml file and how are you calling the funciton?

[n4ows]

I figured it out. These two lines of code:

$newStatus = $ReportDOM->appendChild($domDailyActivity); 
$newStatus->setAttribute("status",$status); 

should have been

$field->setAttribute("status",$status); 

But, I still need to figure out how to kill a previous iteration of a php cron script that is running if it's hung up.

[mykg4orce]

Hmmm my understanding of PHP leads me to believe that once you have executed a php script it will run the contents of the php file, you cant stop it midway.

And at any rate wouldn't your script give up after everything returns true?

[n4ows]

My cron script will stop normally if it runs through each node. It's kind of complicated, but my script calls a function that someone else on my team wrote that pulls xml data from another source. Currently we do those pulls through a browser and they can take up to 30 minutes to pull the data back. However, occasionally the data pulls just die for no known reason. If that happens, my script is sitting there waiting for a response from this other script/function forever, unless it's stopped somehow. I have a timer file that writes a timestamp and report name each time I come to the top of my foreach loop. That's how I know how long the script has been running.