Soap responses

Arkane

Hey guys,

I'm trying to make a script to check the W3C validator.

I have it so that it gets the page results, using cURL.
The response comes in soap 1.2 format, but I don't know how to get the actual result.

I'm querying the page "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arkanes-arkade.co.uk&output=soap12".
I've tried to parse the response with simplexml and the DOMDocument, but not had any luck.

The nodes that I need to get are <m:validity>, <m:errorcount>, and <m:warningcount>. Theres only one of each of these to appear, and they are all value nodes, not containers.

Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to read this?

Thanks

halojoy

I tried your link
and downloaded the XML

I am sure you will be able to parse it using SimpleXML. ([man]simplexml[/man])
I am no good with this, but there are some guys here that knows better.

Here is how the document in question begins

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<env:Body>
<m:markupvalidationresponse env:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/markup-validator">

<m:uri>http://www.arkanes-arkade.co.uk/</m:uri>
<m:checkedby>http://validator.w3.org/</m:checkedby>
<m:doctype>-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN</m:doctype>
<m:charset>utf-8</m:charset>
<m:validity>false</m:validity>
<m:errors>
    <m:errorcount>8</m:errorcount>
    <m:errorlist>

johanafm

I'd still recommend checking that there actually is a validity item etc to avoid causing PHP errors.

	$str = "the contents of the xml response you get".

$ns = 'http://www.w3.org/2005/10/markup-validator';
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadXML($str);

$v_list = $dom->getElementsByTagNameNS($ns, 'validity');
$v = $v_list->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo 'validity: ' . ($v ? 'true<br/>' : 'false<br/>');

$e_list = $dom->getElementsByTagNameNS($ns, 'errorcount');
$e = $e_list->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo 'errorcount: ' . $e . '<br/>';

$w_list = $dom->getElementsByTagNameNS($ns, 'warningcount');
$w = $w_list->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo 'warningcount: ' . $w . '<br/>';

Arkane

Thats amazing guys. I have it working now, thanks very much.

I'm absolutely kicking myself - I had pretty much exactly what johanafm said before, except I was doing it from a rather limited web search, and for the nameserver I had used the envelope encoding - http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding
All great now, much appreciated.
🙂