Why can't I embed php in the xml file? [duplicate] - php

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What I want is that when I make a Ajax get request to domain/xml.php. It return a XML file, so I can use httpRequest.responseXML to parse the XML file.
what I did is:
<?php
$name = 'Just a tester';
?>
<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<name><?php echo $name ?></name>
But the parser gives me an error of the line <?xml version='1.0' ?>, I thought it might be syntax conflict with the php delimiter <?php.
How can I request a url and get xml generated by php?

Answer 1

You have shorttags enabled. This is the default, and as of PHP 5.4, tags are supported everywhere, regardless of shorttags settings.
The problem is that <?xml version='1.0' ?> starts and ends with <? ?>, just like PHP with shorttags.
To get round this use:
echo "<?xml version='1.0' ?>";
on that line.

Answer 2

Why are you trying to embed PHP variables into XML instead of generating the XML with PHP?
Example (xml.php):
<?php
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');
//Your Data
$persons = array(array('name'=>'bob','age'=>20,'sex'=>'M'),
array('name'=>'steve','age'=>26,'sex'=>'M'),
array('name'=>'jen','age'=>33,'sex'=>'F'),
);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><persons/>');
foreach ($persons as $person) {
$node = $xml->addChild('person');
foreach($person as $key=>$value){
$node->addChild($key, $value);
}
}
//DOMDocument to format code output
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0');
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->formatOutput = true;
$dom->loadXML($xml->asXML());
echo $dom->saveXML();
/* OUTPUT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persons>
<person>
<name>bob</name>
<age>20</age>
<sex>M</sex>
</person>
<person>
<name>steve</name>
<age>26</age>
<sex>M</sex>
</person>
<person>
<name>jen</name>
<age>33</age>
<sex>F</sex>
</person>
</persons>
*/
?>

Answer 3

You could try:
<?php
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');
$name = 'Just a tester';
echo "<?xml version='1.0' ?>";
?>
<name><?php echo $name; ?></name>

Answer 4

Change
echo "<?xml...?>";
to
echo '<'."?...?".'>';
Or use Lawerence solution

Answer 5

You should set up your webserver to process not only PHP but XML files also through the PHP preprocessor.

Answer 6

You have short tags enabled. These should be disabled in your php.ini, search for "short_open_tag" and "asp_tag".
If you have an earlier version than PHP 5.3.0 this will probably work (if you only want this for the current document):
<?php ini_set('short_open_tag', 0); ?>