<?php
// generate an xml snippet with the requested information.
// stays server-side.

$word = $_GET['word'];

$ret = '';

$f = simplexml_load_file('data.xml');
foreach ($f as $entry) {
  if ($entry->word == $word) {
    $ret .= '<result>'.$entry->definition.'</result>';
    // this doesn't even have to be XML, but we're doing official "AJAX"
    break;
  }
}
if (strlen($ret) == 0) {
  $ret .= '<result>'.$word.' not found</result>';
}

header("Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
echo '<'.'?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?'.">\n";
echo $ret;

?>
