Posted by Jon on 11/18/21 11:43

"Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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.
>

Well, the file needs to be updatable as well as being dynamic for other
applications (iTunes, browser, news aggregators, etc)

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