Call php echo from jQuery

[AndrewGSW]

Wikipedia cf the xsl: prefix in your previous document.

In computing, the term Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is used to refer to a family of languages used to transform and render XML documents.
Historically, the XSL Working Group in W3C produced a draft specification under the name XSL, which eventually split into three parts:
XSL Transformation (XSLT): is an XML language for transforming XML documents
XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO): an XML language for specifying the visual formatting of an XML document
the XML Path Language (XPath): a non-XML language used by XSLT, and also available for use in non-XSLT contexts, for addressing the parts of an XML document.
As a result, the term XSL is now used with a number of different meanings:
Sometimes it refers to XSLT: this usage is best avoided. However, "xsl" is used both as the conventional namespace prefix for the XSLT namespace, and as the conventional filename suffix for files containing XSLT stylesheet modules
Sometimes it refers to XSL-FO: this usage can be justified by the fact that the XSL-FO specification carries the title Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL); however, the term XSL-FO is less likely to be misunderstood
Sometimes it refers to both languages considered together, or to the working group that develops both languages
Sometimes, especially in the Microsoft world, it refers to a now-obsolete variant of XSLT developed and shipped by Microsoft as part of MSXML before the W3C specification was finalized
This article is concerned with the various usages of the term XSL: for details of the various languages embraced by the term, see the relevant article.

It's confusing that XSL is an acronym for Extensible Stylesheet Language, but it is actually referred to as (and is..) a transformation-language.

[hdewantara]

@AndrewGSW: Wow, it does confuse me too

But let's go back to the original post:

PHP Code:

<?php
header('Content-Type:text/xml');

$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://**.**.**.**:8000/live.xspf"); 

echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><tracks>';
foreach ($xml->trackList->track as $data) {
    $radio = $data->location;
    $song  = $data->title;  
    $info = $data->listeners;
    echo '<track>
            <title>'.$song.'</title>
            <listeners>'.$info.'</listeners>
            <location>'.$radio.'</location>
          </track>';
}
echo '</tracks>';
?>

Perhaps there you could use PHP's htmlspecialchars(), so for example... that $radio line above would become:

PHP Code:

$radio = htmlspecialchars($data->location, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_XML1, 'UTF-8', false); 


[AndrewGSW]

Why not try it? Although, the ampersands I saw were in the title rather than the location.

$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://**.**.**.**:8000/live.xspf");

My suspicion is, though, that the error is created by the above line. That is, in initially trying to parse the XML. The docs.

Convert the well-formed XML document in the given file to an object.

I can only speculate on how to resolve this: reducing the error-reporting level temporarily, loading as a string, operating on the string.. Maybe someone else has experience of this(?).

[guytrance]

Hey Guys.

Thank you so much for your help on this! its truly appreciated.

hdewantara got it right.

i changed:

PHP Code:

$song  = $data->title; 


to:

PHP Code:

$song = htmlspecialchars($data->title, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_XML1, 'UTF-8', false); 


It now reads and displays the code with no errors!

@AndrewGSW - you were also right that the auto generated xml file was from a database, and the only thing to change is the xspf.xml. i did tried your approach but it led to an error..if you want me to reproduce it just drop a line.

Thank you so much again!