Re: PHP-generated XML and AxKit

[S Woodside]

On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 04:43  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello all,

I think this one may have come up before but I haven't found any clean
resolution despite extensive googling and some conversations with 
AxKit and PHP
veterans.

I'm using PHP 4.3.0, Apache 1.3.x, and AxKit/mod_perl.

I'm curious if anyone has managed to find an elegant solution for 
handling XSL
transformations on XML output from a PHP script using AxKit, rather 
than
whatever libraries might be available to do this transform as part of 
PHP.  I'd
rather, if possible, keep my PHP code restricted to the purpose of 
generating
XML (leaving XSLT out of it to be handled by Apache) and I'd also 
rather not
write the XML to a file if I can avoid it.

As it stands, I have a script which outputs well-formed XML and the XSL
instruction for a .xsl stylesheet which resides on the server.  If I 
save that
XML as a test.xml file, AxKit happily transforms it upon a browser 
request for
the test.xml.  If I don't save it, Apache just throws the XML results 
of my
script to the mercies of whatever transformation engine the client 
browser
might have.

Any thoughts on this?

Have you tried using the document() call in XSLT? It accepts URL 
parameters. If you have a web server serving up the PHP (maybe even the 
same server) you could then access it using something like 
document('http://localhost/foo/bar.php'). Apache should generate the 
XML as thoough for a normal user agent, then you suck it into the XSLT 
through the xsl:copy-of command.

simon

Nathan Simpson

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