php-db | 2001062

Re: [PHP-DB] Passing XML From: Hugh Bothwell (hugh_bothwell <email protected>)
Date: 06/30/01

From: "olinux o" <olnx <email protected>>
To: "Hugh Bothwell" <hugh_bothwell <email protected>>; <php-db <email protected>>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Passing XML

> Is this what you have in mind?
>
> $url = 'http://website.com/document.xml';
> $str = implode('', file($url));
> $str = contains the xml doc and retains formatting
> $url could be a doc on the local server as well.

Sure, that would be one way to implement option #1; or, as in the XML entry
in the PHP manual, paging through the file in 4k chunks (better if you're
parsing large files); but passing the url as a parameter instead of defining
it explicitly, ie

http://myserver/script.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebsite.com%2Fdocument.xml

Or you could post the whole XML source to the script (this could be useful
for interactive testing of an XML-generating script); or you could upload an
XML file and have the script parse it (I'm really not sure how this would be
useful, but you could :-)

Also note, if you want to get XML back again, maybe you should look at the
XSLT functions.

> --- Hugh Bothwell <hugh_bothwell <email protected>> wrote:
> > I'm not sure how you mean; it depends on where the
> > data is coming from.
> >
> > I count three ways you can do this:
> > 1. pass the XML filename (or URL) to the script via
> > GET or POST
> > 2. pass the XML source to the script via POST
> > 3. upload the file via POST and call the script
> >
> > More details on what you're trying to accomplish
> > would help.
> >
> > ""Niel Zeeman"" <NZeeman <email protected>> wrote in
> > message
> >
> news:9heo93$q9j$1 <email protected>
> > > Hi there
> > >
> > > Is there anyway of passing a xml document to a php
> > page as raw data.
> > >
> > > What I want to do is eg.
> > > send a page a xml document and recieve a response
> > ( in xml ) from that page. 

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