WesPear Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I've got a rather perplexing question on my hands. I need to scrape some data from a particular website, and had myself geared up for some regular expression magic--when I realized the site was serving straight XML files, transformed client side with XSLT. "Lovely" I thought, "This will make my life easy!" Alas, no matter what method I try to retrieve the xml I can only manage to fetch the rendered HTML output. file_get_contents returns rendered html. curl_exec returns the rendered html. a socket connection returns rendered html. The most frustrating part is I can "view source" in my browser window and see the xml I'm looking for, but can't get to it with PHP. Arrrrgh! Any ideas? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74627-retrieve-remote-xml-before-transformation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
only one Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 check the file() function: http://uk.php.net/file , there's a good example there. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74627-retrieve-remote-xml-before-transformation/#findComment-377224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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