Posted by Chung Leong on 03/25/06 01:24

Jon wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm currently in charge of developing an application that will let us build
> XML files on the fly using data from MySQL. I've done a bit of research, and
> found I'll need the domxml extension to do this with PHP libraries.
> Unfortunately, our host doesn't have this installed, so none of the
> functions are recognized by the parser.
>
> My question: Is there another way around this? Without this extension, is it
> going to be possible to use PHP to populate an XML document from MySQL
> (which of course is populated from form data). Any advice on what direction
> to take? Thanks in advance.

I don't see why you need an extension to generate an XML file. It's no
different from outputting HTML in a typical PHP page.

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