PHP and XML Problem
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:26 am
Hi everyone,
I'm having a few problems with using PHP to handle XML data. Basically, I'm getting data from a database, wrapping this in an XML document then performing an XSL transformation on it. This is all fine, until I want to include some HTML code snippets. I'm doing this using createCDATASection, but this seems to produce "<!--[CDATA[...]]-->" rather than "<![CDATA[...]]>", meaning that the XSL processor doesn't "see" the section at all.
Here's some example code to explain better:
produces "<div></div>", whereas transforming on data.xml containing gives "<div><b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet</div>" as expected
view.xsl:
Any ideas on how to get around this problem?
Thanks,
Gethin
I'm having a few problems with using PHP to handle XML data. Basically, I'm getting data from a database, wrapping this in an XML document then performing an XSL transformation on it. This is all fine, until I want to include some HTML code snippets. I'm doing this using createCDATASection, but this seems to produce "<!--[CDATA[...]]-->" rather than "<![CDATA[...]]>", meaning that the XSL processor doesn't "see" the section at all.
Here's some example code to explain better:
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$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument("1.0","ISO-8859-1");
$datasection = $xmlDoc->createElement("data");
$datasection = $xmlDoc->appendChild($datasection);
$data = $xmlDoc->createCDATASection("<b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet");
$data = $datasection->appendChild($data);
//print $xmlDoc->saveXML(); produces "<data><!--[CDATA[<b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet]]--></data>"
$xslDoc = newDOMDocument();
$xslDoc->load("view.xsl");
$xslProc = new XsltProcessor();
$xslProc->importStylesheet($xslDoc);
$output = $xslProc->transformToDoc($xmlDoc);
print $output->saveXML();
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<data><![CDATA[<b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet]]></data>view.xsl:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<div>
<xsl:value-of select="data"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thanks,
Gethin