Neil,

AHA! Thanks!  You are very good at explaining things.  This cleared up some 
hazy areas about XML for me.  I'll look into mod_rewrite.  I think my brain 
needs a RAM upgrade!  :-)

Thanks for all your help... you've been awesome and then some!

Take Care!

Kass

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> There's no such thing as an XML page - and there's no facility to run
> code inside those pieces of text.
> 
> You'll want to look at mod_rewrite if you're looking for translating
> one URI path into an entirely different one. That takes us outside the
> scope of this newsgroup. 
> 
> It's enough to say you can take a URL such as /my_feed_{datetime}.xml
> and rewrite it on the server (rather than in the browser) to a path
> like /feedgen/feed-processor.php?feed_date={datetime}
> 
> The browser or feed reader never knows that's not a real file ending
> in XML but is generated on the fly or by using passthru() on a
> pre-generated snippet.
> 
> Cheers - Neil
> 
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:28:45 -0700, Kass
> <Kass@d...> wrote:
> 
> >Neil,
> >
> >I took a different approach.  I found some php class code on the net that I 
> >could use as a basis and amend so that I have my master page in which to make 
> >weekly changes.  Then I made the regular 25+ feeds in php so they can pull 
> >the weekly updated info from the master page, but leave their unique info 
> >alone.  This is working great!
> >
> >I'd still like to leave my 25+ feed names alone because of our subscriber 
> >system via feedburner.  This means keeping the .xml extension.  
> >
> >Do you know a successful way to do a redirect inside the .xml pages so they 
> >could just redirect to the php pages?  Like a meta redirect in html, etc.  
> >I've tried a couple of ideas off the net to no avail.
> >
> >Thanks for hanging in there with me on the project.
> >
> >Kass
> >
> >
> >
> >"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:38:01 -0700, Kass
> >> <Kass@d...> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >Neil,
> >> >
> >> >I'm back.  I did my homework and looked into the publications you suggested. 
> >> > All very informative... there is much to know!  Here are my findings.  I'm 
> >> >going to include code again.
> >> 
> >> >rssFeed.xml code:
> >> >
> >> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> >> ><?xml-stylesheet href="getRSS.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
> >> ><rss version="2.0" 
> >> >xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" 
> >> >xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" 
> >> >xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" 
> >> >xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
> >> >xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" 
> >> >xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
> >> 
> >> 
> >> So it looks like your XSL is matching text nodes (which are in no
> >> namespace) but not the XML nodes in the rssFeed.xml, which are in all
> >> of the above namespaces (or rather, the root node is, which is why it
> >> doesn't match).
> >> 
> >> Supposing you now add all the xmlns:bla="bla" above to your
> >> <xsl:stylesheet />, that should eliminate namespace issues from the
> >> transform.
> >> 
> >> To avoid doubt, I've modified the stylesheet to add the required
> >> namespaces. I also changed the identity template at the bottom to
> >> match the one I suggested in the article (otherwise you *do* only get
> >> text nodes)
> >> 
> >> Finally, I changed the output method from <xsl:output method="text" />
> >> to <xsl:output method="xml" /> since it seems obvious you need XML
> >> back.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> >> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  
> >> xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" 
> >> xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" 
> >> xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" 
> >> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
> >> xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" 
> >> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="1.0">
> >> 
> >> <xsl:output method="xml"/>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> <!-- Find and Replace Text Template  -->
> >> 
> >> <xsl:template name="ReplaceAll">
> >>   <xsl:param name="outputString"/>
> >>   <xsl:param name="target"/>
> >>   <xsl:param name="replacement"/>
> >>   <xsl:choose>
> >>     <xsl:when test="contains($outputString,$target)">
> >>    
> >>       <xsl:value-of select=
> >>         "concat(substring-before($outputString,$target),
> >>                $replacement)"/>
> >>       <xsl:call-template name="ReplaceAll">
> >>         <xsl:with-param name="outputString" 
> >>              select="substring-after($outputString,$target)"/>
> >>         <xsl:with-param name="target" select="$target"/>
> >>         <xsl:with-param name="replacement" 
> >>              select="$replacement"/>
> >>       </xsl:call-template>
> >>     </xsl:when>
> >>     <xsl:otherwise>
> >>       <xsl:value-of select="$outputString"/>
> >>     </xsl:otherwise>
> >>   </xsl:choose>
> >> </xsl:template>
> >> 
> >> <xsl:template match="text()">
> >>   <xsl:call-template name="ReplaceAll">
> >>   <xsl:with-param name="outputString" select="."/>
> >>   <xsl:with-param name="target" select="'Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00
> >> CST'"/>
> >>   <xsl:with-param name="replacement" select="'Thu, 09 Apr 2009
> >> 13:00:00 CST'"/>
> >>   </xsl:call-template>
> >> </xsl:template>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> >>   <xsl:copy>
> >>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> >>   </xsl:copy>
> >> </xsl:template>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> </xsl:stylesheet>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Accompanying PHP code :
> >> 
> >> 
> >> <?php
> >> 
> >> $oDOM = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
> >> $oDOM->load("rssFeed.xml");
> >> 
> >> $oXSL = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
> >> $oXSL->load('getRSS.xsl');
> >> 
> >> $oProc = new XSLTProcessor;
> >> $oProc->importStyleSheet($oXSL);
> >> 
> >> $oResultDoc = $oProc->transformToDoc($oDOM);
> >> 
> >> ?>
> >> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> >> 
> >> <html>
> >> <head>
> >> 	<title>Untitled</title>
> >> </head>
> >> 
> >> <body>
> >> 
> >> <textarea rows="40" cols="90" wrap="virtual">
> >> <?php print($oResultDoc->saveXML()); ?>
> >> </textarea>
> >> 
> >> </body>
> >> </html>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ** Note you'll need to check somewhat carefully that yout text editor
> >> is set to use UTF-8 encoding when (re-)saving the XSL and XML as you
> >> can easily get a character set mismatch if you save as ASCII or
> >> ISO-8859-1 (European) by mistake.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> HTH
> >> Cheers - Neil
> >> ------------------------------------------------
> >> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
> >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
> >> 
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