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first off I have to make an empty loc.xml file with permissions in order to write contents, I understand the permission idea.

 

secondly,  simplexml_load_file does nothing

I get it straight from here

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php

 

<?php
   $request='http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dinosaur&startRecord=2&maximumRecords=5';
   //echo $request;
   $filename = dirname(__FILE__)."/loc.xml";
   $raw_xml = file_get_contents($request);
   //echo $raw_xml;
   $fp = fopen($filename, "w");
   fwrite($fp, $raw_xml);
   fclose ($fp);



// The file test.xml contains an XML document with a root element
// and at least an element /[root]/title.

if (file_exists($filename)) {
    $xml = simplexml_load_file($filename);
    
    print_r($xml);


} else {
    exit('Failed to open loc.xml.');
}


?>

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First, if a function is "doing nothing" it probably means there are errors.  Do you have error_reporting turned on?

 

Second, if simplexml_load_file() isn't working as expected but you can verify that the script is getting to the function call it probably means that it is actually returning FALSE because it could not load the XML document.  If the XML document indeed exists it may not be valid XML.  Can you post an example of what the XML doc looks like?  Also, try a var_dump() instead of the print_r().  This will tell you see if the contents of $xml is a boolean value.

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here is the xml file returned from LOC

 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<zs:searchRetrieveResponse xmlns:zs="http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/"><zs:version>1.1</zs:version><zs:numberOfRecords>2144</zs:numberOfRecords><zs:records><zs:record><zs:recordSchema>info:srw/schema/1/marcxml-v1.1</zs:recordSchema><zs:recordPacking>xml</zs:recordPacking><zs:recordData><record xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim">
  <leader>01026ngm a22002773a 4500</leader>
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  <controlfield tag="005">20100823131409.0</controlfield>
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    <subfield code="b">cbc</subfield>
    <subfield code="c">orignew</subfield>
    <subfield code="d">u</subfield>
    <subfield code="e">ncip</subfield>
    <subfield code="f">20</subfield>
    <subfield code="g">y-movingim</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="955" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="b">qm12 2010-08-23</subfield>
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    <subfield code="a">  2010608899</subfield>
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  <datafield tag="017" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">PA0001684303</subfield>
    <subfield code="b">U.S. Copyright Office</subfield>
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    <subfield code="a">DLC</subfield>
    <subfield code="c">DLC</subfield>
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  <datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">1 videocassette of 1 :</subfield>
    <subfield code="b">sd., col. ;</subfield>
    <subfield code="c">3/4 in. viewing copy.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Copyright: PUB 1Jun67; PA608-253.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Copyright notice on film: RKO General Inc., Jomar Prod. Inc., Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. ; 1967.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">On cassette with episodes: Frigid fugitive ; Dinosaur dilemna ; Paddleboat pirate.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Number 12.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Animation.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Source used: copyright data sheet.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="541" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="d">Received: 4/27/1993;</subfield>
    <subfield code="3">viewing copy;</subfield>
    <subfield code="c">copyright deposit--RNR;</subfield>
    <subfield code="a">Copyright Collection.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="710" ind1="2" ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)</subfield>
    <subfield code="5">DLC</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="740" ind1="0" ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Invader raider.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="740" ind1="0" ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Abbott and Costello cartoons.</subfield>
    <subfield code="p">Invader raider.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="953" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">TE01</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="969" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">qxp</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="991" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="b">c-MP&TV</subfield>
    <subfield code="h">VBK 2042 (viewing copy)</subfield>
    <subfield code="w">MUMS VM File</subfield>
  </datafield>
</record></zs:recordData><zs:recordPosition>6</zs:recordPosition></zs:record></zs:records></zs:searchRetrieveResponse>

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   $request='http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dinosaur&startRecord=2&maximumRecords=5';
   //echo $request;
//  $filename = dirname(__FILE__)."/loc.xml";
  // $raw_xml = file_get_contents($request);
   //echo $raw_xml;
  // $fp = fopen($filename, "w");
  // fwrite($fp, $raw_xml);
  // fclose ($fp);

$xml = simplexml_load_file($request);
var_dump  ($xml);

 

shows just 'object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (0) { } '

 

 

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also it returns false

<?php

 

$request='http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dinosaur&startRecord=2&maximumRecords=5';

 

  $xml = simplexml_load_file($request);

  if ($xml == FALSE){

      echo "Failed loading XML\n";

      foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) {echo "\t", $error->message;}//Failed loading XML was the returned error

    }

  dump_var($xml);

 

 

 

?>

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forgot on previous to set errors true.

but still get nothing, returns false and no errors are shown?

I am pretty sure the xml is not malformed by Library of Congress.

 

<?php 
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
  $request='http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dinosaur&startRecord=2&maximumRecords=5';

  $xml = simplexml_load_file($request);
   if ($xml == FALSE){
      echo "Failed loading XML\n";
      foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) {echo "\t", $error->message;}//Failed loading XML was the returned error 
    }
   dump_var($xml);



?>

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It's definitely failing to load the XML despite the XML being valid.  I checked the XML with W3C:

 

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp

 

AND I tried using the SimpleXMLElement object instead of the function call but got the same results.  This may indeed be a bug but I'll try a few more things first.

 

 

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);

$request='http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dinosaur&startRecord=2&maximumRecords=5';
$string = file_get_contents($request);
echo $string;

$oXml = new SimpleXMLElement($string);
if (!$oXml) {
    echo "Failed loading XML\n";
    foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) {
        echo "\t", $error->message;
    }
}

var_dump  ($oXml);

 

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OK, after further investigating the XML document is valid but PHP has trouble handling the ":" character in the tag.  Here's a hack workaround but this is definitely a bug or issue with PHP.

 

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);

$request='http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dinosaur&startRecord=2&maximumRecords=5';
$string = file_get_contents($request);
// echo $string;
$string = str_replace(":", "_", $string);
// echo $string;

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($string);
if (!$sxe) {
    echo "Failed loading XML\n";
    foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) {
        echo "\t", $error->message;
    }
}

var_dump  ($sxe);

 

You should be able to see the elements with an "_" character replacing where the ":" was previously.  Hope this helps for now.

 

 

Revision:  I guess I shouldn't say this is a bug because the ":" character is part of the PHP language construct but it should be handled more gracefully in the SimpleXML object.

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Just worked on something similar, try this :

 

 $url = file_get_contents('http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dinosaur&startRecord=2&maximumRecords=5');

  $xml =  new SimpleXMLElement($url) ;
  
  //file put contents - same as fopen, wrote  and close
  //need to output "asXML" - simple xml returns an object based upon the raw xml
  file_put_contents(dirname(__FILE__)."/loc.xml", $xml->asXML());

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also, if you are just getting the xml from a remote address and you wish to just write the raw contents to a file, you don't need simple xml till later. Simple xml is for parsing and writing xml. You could also get the page contents using curl.

 

... or even simpler using file_get_contents()

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well, yes, my idea was to write contents to a file.

Then load it and parse it so it runs something like this LOC web site user search here.

 

http://www.loc.gov/z3950/

My idea was to create a search page for what the user wants to find

Then using the LOC SRU at http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/

(they show some examples http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/simple.html ), run the query and return results as XML. Save the file, getting 20 records at a time, process the xml so it looks like this

http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ when they search.

Forward or back just get a new XML file from LOC.

Click on 'more on this record' and display the marc data.

Then have a button when the user clicks loads it into a file or directly into the database.

 

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A brief overview of how I would start this.

 

Seems like there will be multiple calls to a base url with some changing

parameters.

 

looking here:

http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/simple.html points 2, 3, and 5 seem like the way to start.

 

So essentially you are making an initial call to give you the number of records,

then the same call a bunch of times to get the next set based upon your parameters

in the url.

 

I would create a class file that deals with all this in an oop fashion.

You would have a method that sends the requests, I would use curl, and a method

that deals with parsing the xml - simpleXml(for the simple xml look into parsing children of namespaces

in this case "zs" - simple xml can definitely parse these results just have to experiment with the correct

syntax and combo of children() etc.).

 

No need to actually write data to a file or DB until you really need to at the end for

a single record.

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http://wap.w3schools.com/php/php_xml_simplexml.asp

 

However, when dealing with advanced XML, like namespaces, you are better off using the Expat parser or the XML DOM.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_namespaces.asp

An XML parser will not know how to handle these differences.

 

so should i just try and work with XML DOM methods?

perhaps this : namespace issue means it is not a bug in the simple xml function

although your saying  it might could work.

truthfully, I dont know a lot about parsing XML yet. And it does not seem very simple (simplexml)

at all.

 

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finally got some help here as I was truly stuck on the child node processing

 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1693277

 

This following code takes an xml marc file and parses it out to match what LOC normally displays as a marc record

It uses DOM but since it wont have more than 20 records it should be ok.

It shows how to display the attributes associated with child element EXCEPT, I dont understand

why I had to change this

if(!$d->hasChildNodes)

to

if($d->hasChildNodes)

 

as I thought subfield was a child node of datafield??

any ideas?

 

 

<?php
//http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/DOM-XML-extension/Octavia_Anghel102710.php3
//child nodes http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_xml_dom.asp
//http://books.google.com/books?id=ygQRKDEsLecC&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=print+php+xml+child+node+attributes&source=bl&ots=TCAhH4kpCt&sig=yJUPXesIkRUrNXdNE9Yr5ul7Wdw&hl=en&ei=U51kTeKQKsL48AbN4MDTBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CF4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=print%20php%20xml%20child%20node%20attributes&f=false
//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4598409/printing-content-of-a-xml-file-using-xml-dom
//http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = FALSE;

$doc->load( 'loc.xml' );
$root = $doc->documentElement;
$type = $root->nodeType;
//print $doc->nodeName."\n";
//print $root->nodeName."\n";
//print $doc->nodeValue."\n";
//print $root->nodeValue."\n";


$librecords = $doc->getElementsByTagName( "record" );

foreach( $librecords as $record ){

   $leader = $record->getElementsByTagName( "leader" );
   $controlfields = $record->getElementsByTagName( "controlfield" ); 
   $datafields = $record->getElementsByTagName( "datafield" ); 
  
   $leader = $leader->item(0)->nodeValue;  
   echo '=LDR '.$leader.'<BR>';

   foreach( $controlfields as $controlfield ){
      $tag = $controlfield->getAttribute('tag');  
      $cf_value = $controlfield->firstChild->nodeValue;
      echo "=".$tag." ".$cf_value.'<BR>';  }
   
    // loop over each datafield
    foreach($datafields as $d){
        $tag  = $d->getAttribute('tag');
        $ind1 = $d->getAttribute('ind1');
        $ind2 = $d->getAttribute('ind2');
        
        $ind1 = ($ind1 == " ") ? "_" : $ind1;
        $ind2 = ($ind2 == " ") ? "_" : $ind2;
        echo "=".$tag." ".$ind1.$ind2; // excuse the \n, using CLI
   
        if(!$d->hasChildNodes)
          {
            // select its subfields
            $subfields = $d->getElementsByTagName('subfield');

            // loop over them
            foreach($subfields as $s){
                
                $code = $s->getAttribute('code');
                $value = $s->nodeValue;
                print '$'.$code;
                print $value;
            }
        }          
       echo '<BR>';
    }  
  
      echo '<BR>';      

echo '<BR>';

}
?>


foreach( $subfields as $subfield ){
      $code = $subfield->getAttribute('code');  
      $sf_value = $subfield->firstChild->nodeValue;
      echo '$'.$code.$sf_value.'<BR>'; }
   

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