rss parsing

[arandam]

what is wrong with this code?

I want to parse rss content and its giving error that, the input is not corret

 

$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();

$xml="http://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/index.html?mode=rss";

$xmlDoc->loadxml($xml);

//$xmlDoc->load($xml);

 

 

[ManiacDan]

Per the PHP manual, loadXML()'s first argument is the XML, not a URL.  You want to eliminate that line and just use the load() function.

 

-Dan

[arandam]

I tried also using load(), but, thats also giving error

[ManiacDan]

use SimpleXML instead of the DOM.

 

-Dan

[arandam]

i also tried that, but, its giving error

but, if i use the link,  http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss, all methods are working.

but, only with the link http://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/index.html?mode=rss, its not working.

can u have a look, it just takes 5 lines of code.

may be i am missing something

[ManiacDan]

that RSS feed isn't properly encoded, so simplexml_load_file is throwing a UTF-8 encoding error.  The errors I'm getting on that feed are either encoding related or CDATA related.

 

It seems your target feed is poorly formed.  Parse it by hand, or contact the publisher.  The apostrophe in "Genentech's" is not actually an apostrophe, that seems to be the issue.  I don't know why simplexml is failing on a CDATA field, but it is.

 

-Dan

[arandam]

thanks for your investigation

now, i have bit peace, because, i was thinking, something is wrong in my coding.

what do you mean by 'parse by hand'?

[ManiacDan]

Use the string parsing functions to actually break it up by hand rather than trying a pre-build solution.  Preg_match_all can handle a well-formed RSS feed like this.  Or you could use strpos and substr to manually pull each tag into a variable.

 

It will be tedious, but if the XML is so weird that both XML parsing functions choke on it, it might be your only way.

 

-Dan