Posted by Stephen Leaf on 09/20/05 02:11

On Monday 19 September 2005 12:25 pm, Ken Tozier wrote:
> > I would be extremely careful with this.. because sadly PHP's XML
> > generator
> > uses the short form whenever possible.
> > <script /> will *NOT* work in most browsers such as FireFox.
> > <script></script> Will work.
>
> Thanks for the heads up. Looks like if you define the tag like
> $script = $dom->createElement('script',''); <-- empty string
> It tacks on an end tag.
The way that I've been doing this thus far is using XSL. If you use the
DOMDocument::loadXML() function and it has anything like that. it will
convert it to short form.
I design the back XML using Dom calls then throw a xsl at it to spit out my
page. very nice clean code that's separated from style.

>
> So far, just playing. But ultimately I'd like to generate the whole
> page using dom calls. It seems much cleaner for what I'm doing than
> creating a whole bunch of large functions that do nothing more than
> echo prestyled html.

Is this clean enough? :)
minimum for one of my pages that uses SQL:
<?php
include("Document.php");

// a DOM Object is auto generated along with an XPath object to go with it.
// $Document->gDom() and $Document->gXPath() to gain access to them.
$Document = new Document("rootNode");
try {
$Document->gDb()->connect(Database::SQLITE,"../database.db");
} catch (DBConnectFailed $dbCF) {
die("Failed to connect to the Database.");
}
$Document->setTitle("This is the title");
// Use $Document->setStylesheet(""); to set a stylesheet,
// defaults to index.xsl.

// Here is where you put the page specific code.
// XML data nodes used in the XSL template.

// This outputs the header(); and the DocType.
$Document->outputHeader();
echo $Document; // This will load the XSL document, apply it, and return
// The page to be echo'd
?>

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