How to display styled xml generated by a .asp link?

[fishbaitfood]

Hello guys,

 

I want to make an xml feed into my webpage, but the xml is generated from an .asp file on another website, so it's not actually an xml file, but xml output.

Now, I want to retrieve this xml output on my webpage, but I'm having difficulties while doing this.

 

What I've tried so far:

 

- With PHP:

<?php
echo file_get_contents("http://link-on-other-website.asp?XML=1");
?>

 

- With javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","http://link-on-other-website.asp?XML=1", false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML; 

document.write("<table border='1'>");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("RECORD");
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
  { 
  document.write("<tr><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("NAME")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("DATE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td></tr>");
  }
document.write("</table>");
</script>

 

 

When using the PHP code, I can retrieve it obviously, but I get an <?xml ... > declaration within my body, which is not allowed.

When using the Javascript code, I can't even retrieve anything.

 

And the goal is to style this xml output to match my website. That's the whole purpose of this xml link, because I couldn't style the iframe I had earlier.

 

Can someone help me on this, on how to properly embed this asp generated xml output, within my HTML5 document?

 

ps: I've asked for the xml-feed link from that other website, so using the above PHP code is legit in my case.

[fishbaitfood]

Bump.  :-\

 

Is there any other way to retrieve the XML output? Which lets me style it the way I want?

[trq]

I would use simplexml_load_file to load the file into an object, then from that object create HTML which could be formatted however you want.

[fishbaitfood]

Thanks thorpe!

Just what I needed!

 

So many useful PHP functions I haven't discovered yet...