Re: create xml document with PHP

The only real difference between HTML and XML (besides the obvious standards and formats and such) is the MIME type, I believe. HTML has a "text/html" MIME type, while XML can have a whole bunch, depending on what the XML is supposed to do. (I.e. text/xml, application/xml, application/xml-dtd, etc.) Try outputing the XML using "text/xml" as the MIME type by using header("Content-type: text/xml"); at the beginning of your script. (Or at least as the first bit of output -- nothing should come before the headers. J Rodrigo Peres wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm new to the xml world, and I need to create a page with data retrieved > from my database using PHP. The process is the same of create an html > page?? I mean I can use echo to output the xml tags and values?? Since > this page will be dinamically generated what kind of headers I need to use > to this page become an xml??? > I saw many docs in web but all about parse an xml, but not in how to build > one.