read and echo XML not working

[denoteone]

My variable which should be storing XML data and echos it to the screen is echoing the data as a string without the XML structure Below is my code but it is still not working:

 

 
$view = $_GET['view'];

$xml_data = "http://www.website.com/STRATA/" . $view .".xml";
$handle = fopen($xml_data, 'r');
$Data = fread($handle, 10000);
fclose($handle);


echo $Data;

 

 

[denoteone]

ok I wasnt setting the header header('Content-type: text/xml');