Sorry, I have no better forum to file this under.
Here is my issue. I'm working on a non-profit theater site who uses a third party box office solution for selling tickets in house and on the web. This service publishes showtimes on HTML pages transformed from XML. They will not allow us to style these HTML pages so we will have to make our own XSL transformations, something I know next to nothing about. Since this service they use developed it process at a time before there were such a thing as XML standards and have flat out refused to update their method, all the example XSLT scripts just plain don't work. So, I am approaching the only community I have an 'in' with to help me figure out what I need to do.
It doesn't seem like there is a functional XML import module for Drupal, even though some people have started projects on it. I am not sure we want to create nodes for each showtime either. In the end, I need to create seven HTML files to SSI into drupal nodes for each day of the week. I don't know all of the date formatting and sorting vocabulary but I'll cross that once I get there.
I found this code that works just great in a practice environment with dummy files:
<?php
// Allocate a new XSLT processor
$xh = xslt_create();
// Process the document
if (xslt_process($xh, 'aa_showtimes.xml', 'aa_format.xsl' , 'result.html')) {
print "SUCCESS, sample.xml was transformed by sample.xsl into result.xml";
print ", result.xml has the following contents\n