Re: [php-xml] Re: [PHP-DEV] XSLT extension

Howdy, Sablotron: http://www.gingerall.com/charlie-bin/get/webGA/act/sablotron.act Xalan: http://xml.apache.org/xalan/ Rael On 9/21/00 4:12 PM, Carl Parrish at cparrish@home.com wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > php-xml mailing list > php-xml@lists.oreillynet.com > http://lists.oreillynet.com/mailman/listinfo/php-xml ------------------------------------------------------------------ Rael Dornfest rael@oreilly.com Maven http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael The O'Reilly Network http://meerkat.oreillynet.com ------------------------------------------------------------------