Haveing trouble aquiring an xml document

[google@charliefortune.com]

I am making a soap request to an amazon server and trying to parse the
xml. The request -

http://webservices.amazon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&SubscriptionId=0PHDGJJ5S75MM3PERG02&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Books&Keywords=liverpool&ResponseGroup=Medium

is succesful in my browser. But I can't get it into my script.

<?php
$parser=xml_par ser_create();
xml_set_element _handler($parse r,"start_handle r","end_handler ");
xml_set_charact er_data_handler ($parser,"chara cter_handler");
xml_parser_set_ option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE _FOLDING, 0);

$soap=fopen("ht tp://webservices.ama zon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWS ECommerceServic e&SubscriptionI d=0PHDGJJ5S75MM 3PERG02&Operati on=ItemSearch&S earchIndex=Book s&Keywords=live rpool&ResponseG roup=Medium","r ");

xml_parse ($parser,$soap) or die (format_error($ parser));
xml_parser_free ($parser);
.....
....?>

returns an XML ERROR (2) Syntax error.

Is it that fopen is not the correct way to aquire the xml ?

Thank you

[Steve]

Re: Haveing trouble aquiring an xml document

[color=blue]
> $soap=fopen("ht tp://webservices.ama zon.co.uk/onca/xml?Service=AWS ECommerceServic e&SubscriptionI d=0PHDGJJ5S75MM 3PERG02&Operati on=ItemSearch&S earchIndex=Book s&Keywords=live rpool&ResponseG roup=Medium","r ");
> xml_parse ($parser,$soap) or die (format_error($ parser));[/color]

Don't pass the file handle to xml_parse(). Get some data from the file
handle and pass that. You can either get /all/ the data and pass it in
one lump, or make multiple calls to fread() and pass each chunk until
there's no more to read.

while( !feof($soap) )
{
$xmldata = fread($soap,102 4);
xml_parse($pars er,$xmldata) or die( ... );
}
fclose($soap);
xml_parser_free ($parser);

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Steve

[google@charliefortune.com]

Re: Haveing trouble aquiring an xml document

Of course. Thank you v much