Re: PHP XSLT extension
| From: | rubys at us dot ibm dot com | Date: | Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:11:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP XSLT extension | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
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Andi Gutmans wrote:
>> I am not sure I quite understand this. Do you mean a mechanism for
>> automatically
>> choosing a stylesheet according to the requesting user agent?
>
>No I mean the PHP script could decide what stylesheet the PHP output
>support should use. It just needs to decide before it starts outputting
>the data which you want a stylesheet applied to.
I originally had considered this and rejected it. For the wrong reason.
In Cocoon, one defines a pattern of URLs which are to be mapped to a
pipeline consisting of a generator, any number of filters, and a
serializer. Most importantly, one could change the style of an entire site
by changing a single line in a sitemap.
In PHP, this same effect could be achieved via a require ('header.inc').
In cocoon, there is considerable debate on how to represent logic in the
sitemap - in PHP this would not be an issue.
I'm sold.
- Sam Ruby
P.S. I can't seem to get to the Sablotron web site at the moment...