XML & XSL in PHP

[kvnmck18]

If I use dom in a php can I use a php Get form to Request data in XSL that is embedded in the XML?Orginal XSL for-each line:<xsl:for-each select="//pic[@category]">to:<xsl:for-each select=" <?php echo $_REQUEST['name']; ?>">So it can change from:select="//pic[@category]" ---to---> select="//pic[@category=kitchen]"It's kindof like a "Search" XML but the Search is limited to just Search Results of: "All (being the default)" (<xsl:for-each select="//pic[@category]">), "Kitchen"(<xsl:for-each select="//pic[@category=kitchen]">), "Bath" (<xsl:for-each select="//pic[@category=bath]">), "Home"(<xsl:for-each select="//pic[@category=home]">).PM me if you want me to send you the zip files of the XML and the XSLIs this possible or is there some other way than PHP to do this? I've tried Javascript in an XSL but that didn't work.

[ThePsion5]

To be honest, I don't know alot about XSL, but I suppose it's possible to use PHP code to write SXL. However, make sure your web server knows to interpret SXL for PHP code or else it won't work.

[kvnmck18]

My server does.

[ThePsion5]

If so, then you should be able to do this without any problem. Say your file is xmlstyle.xslt. To modify the stylesheet based on a php request, you would have to do something like the following in the stylesheet itself:

<xsl:for-each select="<?phpif($_GET['name'] == null)   print '//pic[@category]">';else  print $_GET['name'];?>">

The only problem here is that you have to propogate your change from your web page, to your xml file, to your xslt file. When you call your web page that contains the XML script that you want to modify, you would need to reference the file like this:

xmlfile.xml?name='something'

Make sure that your web server will look in .xml files for PHP code too, of course.Now, inside of your XML file, you would insert PHP code into the part of the file that references the XSL file:

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl<?PHPif($_GET['name'] != null)  print '$_GET["name"]' . $_GET['name'];?>"?>

I hope this isn't too confusing, lol.

[boen_robot]

Sounds cool, but wait. Aren't files that are supposed to be processed by PHP always use the PHP extension? I mean, shouldn't we have an XML file called for example cdcat.php which is actually XML file and in it have a reference such as this

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.php?<?PHPif($_GET['name'] != null) print '$_GET["name"]' . $_GET['name'];?>"?>

[justsomeguy]

It's probably better for the sake of portability to do that, you can have PHP output a header to specify any mime-type you want, but you can also set up the server to send any file extension to PHP. You can send all .html files to PHP if you want, but those .html files probably won't execute on some other server without changing it also, and there will also be a little bit of overhead since PHP always gets called whether it needs to or not.

[ThePsion5]

Sounds cool, but wait. Aren't files that are supposed to be processed by PHP always use the PHP extension? I mean, shouldn't we have an XML file called for example cdcat.php which is actually XML file and in it have a reference such as this

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.php?<?PHPif($_GET['name'] != null) print '$_GET["name"]' . $_GET['name'];?>"?>

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You're probably right, but I'd rather set the server to parse XML and XSL files for PHP rather than parsing all files as such, simply for the sake of consistency (and security too) - telling the server to parse XML and XLS files should be relatively easy, at least it is for my Apache server.