php web service streaming SOAP output by nodes

[addisonp]

Problem:
How to have a php web service return the soap output message in a data stream, where one node is sent at a time to the client. This is due to sending a large amount of database information in XML format

Question:
Is there a good tutorial/example that shows how to write this in a web service server side?

Web Searches:
1. Jabber - as a possible solution, haven't gone too deep, been attempting to find a php only solution
2. using XMLReader/XMLWriter - haven't found a viable example/tutorial

Note:
1. Any suggestions as to what to look for would be greatly appreciated.
2. Tested saving the node of data continuously to a XML file on the machine and stopped the process when the size of the file hit over 100 megs


Status:
1. have the web server already written so that it creates a node of data as a simpleXMLElement and that one element is repeatedly overwritten with the next set of database query information
2. stuck as to how to send that one node to the client without exiting the server function that has generated that node of data

Thanks in advance,
Addison

[pbmods]

Heya, addisonp. Welcome to TSDN.

I'm going to go ahead and move this thread out of PHP Articles into the PHP Forum, where one of our resident Experts will be more likely to see it.