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+<?php
+$pub_id = $_GET["pub_id"];
+$url = "http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi/?db=pubmed&id=" . $pub_id;
+$response = file_get_contents($url);
+
+$NCBI_doc = new SimpleXMLElement($response); // inst. NCBI eDocSummary as xml
+$xml_out = new SimpleXMLElement("<eSummaryResult/>"); // inst. new xml doc for output
+
+// build xml doc with NCBI data
+$DocSum = $xml_out->addChild("DocSum");
+$DocSum->addChild("Id",$NCBI_doc->DocSum->Id);
+
+foreach ($NCBI_doc->xpath("//Item") as $item) {
+ switch((string) $item["Name"]) { // Get attributes as element indices
+ case "PubDate":
+ $DocSum->addChild("PubDate",$item);
+ break;
+ case "Author":
+ $authorList[] = $item;
+ break;
+ case "LastAuthor":
+ $DocSum->addChild("LastAuthor",$item);
+ break;
+ case "Title":
+ $DocSum->addChild("Title",$item);
+ break;
+ case "Volume":
+ $DocSum->addChild("Volume",$item);
+ break;
+ case "Pages":
+ $DocSum->addChild("Pages",$item);
+ break;
+ case "FullJournalName":
+ $DocSum->addChild("FullJournalName",$item);
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
+$author_list = "";
+foreach ($authorList as $author) {
+ $author_list = $author_list . $author . ", ";
+}
+$DocSum->addChild("AuthorList",rtrim($author_list,", "));
+
+
+header('Content-Type: text/xml'); // output xml doctype in your response
+echo $xml_out->asXML();
+?>
+