RE: [PHP] XML news from moreover (OT)

Hi Lewis, I've actually done this with my company's Virtuoso product http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso. Not a php solution, but I figured I'd answer it here - if you don't want to use a commercial product maybe someone on the list can suggest a similar architecture. What I've done is: 1. set up an automatic, timed replication of a URL from moreover's XML feeds. 2. this gets saved as a website folder within a WebDAV repository in Virtuoso (i.e. non-relational, XML resource) 3. I then have a XSL sheet written to format the specific type of feed 4. I push it through Virtuoso's in-build XSLT engine, and produce the custom formatted webpage. 5. the page is always current (at whatever interval I set) and relational data can be included as well, since the database is also a webserver. Hope this helps! Best regards, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------- Andrew Hill Professional Services Consultant OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com XML & E-Business Infrastructure Technology Provider > -----Original Message----- > From: Lewis Bergman [mailto:lbergman@abi.tconline.net] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 2:34 PM > To: phplist > Subject: [PHP] XML news from moreover > > > Goal: > To periodically download all moreover news and insert them into a > db so users > can later pick from free form searches or categories and include > those in a > "mypage" kind of deal. Moreover doesn't care as long as I give > credit where > credit is due, keep the links live, and don't include actual article text. > > Facts: > I have researched moreover's XML format which is very logical and > predictable > and would seem easy to parse and insert into a db. > > Other Facts: > No idea where to go. I haven't done any XML, do I need to use the > xml parser > for this? Would it be faster? It seems like I could just search > with get ( They > have a distinct URL for each category and format ) and do an > insert in to the > db for the different fields. Sockets maybe? Really clueless on > where to start > here. > > I have only used php to generate pages. Never to go get some, > process them, and > store them. > > -- > Lewis Bergman > Texas Communications > 4309 Maple St. > Abilene, TX 79602 > 915-695-6962 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >