Using phpreports which is based on XML and get <

[scriggs]

I am using PHP reports which is based on XML.

When the script runs it produces a HTML page but all the tags are coded with &lt; and &rt; instead of < and >.

This means that the tags are printed in the browser rather than interpreted.

Is this an XML issue, any ideas how I can solve? Is there an XML test I can run to see if my system is OK?

 

[JontyMC]

Is that what "PHP reports" is supposed to do? Tried on another computer? What's the code of the script?

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[scriggs]

Thanks for the reply.

phpreports is a reporting tool developed in PHP (see

http://phpreports.sourceforge.net/).

The script uses XML to create a report in HTML.

It works on lots of computers I am sure, I have tried it on 2 computers I have - home and work. These are both Windows running Apache and PHP5.

When it runs everything works fine except the < and > which are used in tags are shown as &lt; and &rt; which display as < and > on the screen, but do not make the tag work!

 

[JontyMC]

Do you have to feed an XSL stylesheet into it?

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[scriggs]

Jon

Thanks for the reply, but I don't know. I have never used XML, I am just trying to use this opensource solution based on XML.

The files I edit to make it work are PHP, CSS and XML.

There is a directory called XSLT which contains a lot of files with XSL extenstion. I have copied the first one as an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"[/URL] version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="iso-8859-1" indent="no"/>

<xsl:param name="output_format"/>
<xsl:param name="classname"/>

<xsl:include href="PHPReportRpt.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportForm.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportPage.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportUtil.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportRow.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportFields.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportHeader.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportFooter.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportGroup.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportLink.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportBookmark.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportImg.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportCol.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="PHPReportXHTML.xsl"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:if test="$output_format='file'">
&lt;?php
</xsl:if>
class <xsl:value-of select="$classname"/> {
// An array to store the benchmarks
var $_aBench;

// And a function to return it
function getBenchmarks(){
	return $this->_aBench;
}

// A pre-existing database connection to use instead of connecting
// to the database ourselves
var $_oCon = NULL;
function setDatabaseConnection(&amp;$_oCon){
	$this->_oCon =&amp; $_oCon;
}

function run($sXMLOutputFile=null,$aEnv_=null) {
	$sPath = getPHPReportsFilePath();

	if(is_null($sPath))
		exit("I can't find the paths needed to run. Please refer to the PDF manual to see how to set it.");

	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportEvent.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportRpt.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportXMLElement.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportForm.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportRow.php";
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportColParm.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportLink.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportBookmark.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportImg.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportCol.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportField.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportGroup.php"; 
	include_once $sPath."/php/PHPReportPage.php"; 

	<xsl:apply-templates/>
	return $oPage->getFileName();
}

}
<xsl:if test="$output_format='file'">
?&gt;
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<!-- template for all text elements -->
<xsl:template match="text()">
	<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

 

[JontyMC]

Hmmm, cant really help without looking at php reports in more detail.

As a dirty solution, why dont you run a search and replace script on the output?

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.