Re: [php-xml] Re: [PHP-DEV] XSLT extension (fwd)

Can someone please point me to where I can find information on either Xalan or Sablotron? Thanks, Carl Parrish Webmaster Datasoft.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Sterling Hughes <sterling@php.net> To: Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com>; PHP XML List <php-xml@lists.oreillynet.com> Cc: PHP Developer List <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: [php-xml] Re: [PHP-DEV] XSLT extension (fwd) > > > Just thought some of the folks over on the php-xml list might have some > > input here. > > > > So far the general consensus appears to be: > > Sablotron is not 100% conformant, but there are equal concerns regarding > > the stability of Xalan. > > > > Those things are going to change. Xalan-C++ is going to come out of Alpha, > Sablotron is also going to fully support the XSL specification (to be accurate, > Xalan-C++ doesn't fully support it yet, but it is somewhat closer than > Sablotron). Also, both projects are open source, have an active community of > developers, support a variety of platforms and are constantly growing... > > I think the main choice is between the API's and for me I'd have to choose > Sablotron hands down (however, that's biased on two accounts, one I wrote the > Sablotron extension, two, I strongly dislike C++). > > From what I've seen of both API's, Sablotron provides the same amount of power > as Xalan-C++ with a simpler to use and human documented API (Javadoc > documentation is fine, but, I prefer when documentation is written by a human to > the reader.) Sablotron also provides a C API which means that you don't > necessarily need C++ to use it, whereas, Xalan-C++ is just C++. > > Sablotron works off of Expat, and therefore also provides SAX based XML parsing > features (already implemented in the PHP extension). Xalan-C++ works off of > Xerces-C++ and therefore offers both DOM and SAX interfaces (of course PHP > supports libxml and Expat, so there is really no difference there). > > Right now, I'd stay with Sablotron (of course that's because I wrote the > extension), it currently supports: > > - Full XSL transformation support, it can transform files into variables, > variables into files, variables into variables etc. > - Output buffering tie-ins: > > <?php > xslt_output_begintransform("somefile.xsl"); > // All output is transformed > xslt_output_endtransform(); > ?> > -SAX based XML parser > -An error handling mechanism that provides descriptive errors, logging of > errors is also supported. > - A full resource API > - Full support for XSL parameters > - You can provide named buffers for data to be transformed to and by. > > -Sterling > > > _______________________________________________ > php-xml mailing list > php-xml@lists.oreillynet.com > http://lists.oreillynet.com/mailman/listinfo/php-xml