outputting XML from PHP

[Aarron]

Today I decided to teach myself both PHP and XML ... so I decided to
make a little address book. After I finished it I found this:
http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/sablotron.html which describes more
or less what I did.

The main difference is that users are able to add entries into my
address book. When an entry is added I get all of the address book info
as post data. I take this data then print out a whole new xml file.

Is there a better way to do this? Right now 95% of the PHP I wrote
saves a new XML file ... the other 4 lines transform the XML with some
XSL and displays the results.

I suppose Im too used to working with databases where I can (more or
less) write "Insert Whatever into AddressBook"

[Tony Marston]

Aarron <sp***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<4P***********************@news3.calgary.shaw .ca>...

Today I decided to teach myself both PHP and XML ... so I decided to
make a little address book. After I finished it I found this:
http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/sablotron.html which describes more
or less what I did.
I wonder who wrote that?
The main difference is that users are able to add entries into my
address book. When an entry is added I get all of the address book info
as post data. I take this data then print out a whole new xml file.

Is there a better way to do this? Right now 95% of the PHP I wrote
saves a new XML file ... the other 4 lines transform the XML with some
XSL and displays the results.

I suppose Im too used to working with databases where I can (more or
less) write "Insert Whatever into AddressBook"

I would suggest storing your data in a database, such as MySQL, and
using XML after extracting portions for inclusion in a web page. XML
is not a DBMS therefore it does not have the power and flexibility of
a DBMS.

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net/