Re: RFC: ext/xslt

> All, > > as said in my previous message, discussion and efforts to get a solid > maintenance > for the xslt extension has started on the Sablotron mailinglist, after > Sterling's announcement. > > There are currently two main issues that are pending: > > Is it realistic to expect that other xslt processors will be integrated via > the abstraction, > that Sterling has provided? > > If not - this would raise whether the xslt_ namespace is correct (academic > but still) and if so, > how would (Sablotron) processor specific functions be integrated? Would > these register under: > xslt_sablot_* or would function xslt_*, which is only available for > processor X, be a userland > issue, where xslt_backend() would provide the means to detect availibility? > > The SXP interface in the Sablotron library provides DOM functions, which > also allows creation > of DOM documents. Exposing those, would effectively create 2 extensions > with equal functionality > and totally different approaches (ext/domxml and ext/xslt). Is this > something we would want in > core (ereg vs. preg / recode vs. iconv / shm vs. shmop)? > > > Thread on sablotron list: > > http://archive.gingerall.cz/archives/public/sablot2002/msg01713.html http://www.bumblebury.com/phptodo/xmsl.html my thoughts on the matter... If you really want to handle XML, XSLT and the like in PHP, the solution is to build a standardized, documented, DOM, SAX, XPath, XInclude, XPointer interface, and then have functions which wrap around these to apply XSLT transformations. Xalan/Xerces, Sablotron/Expat, and Libxslt/Libxml all provide, or aim to provide good support for these things. Libxml/Libxslt seem to be the most developed at this point, so I'd suggest bundling them and then working on a unified extension based on them... Just my 2c, not really interested in taking the project further... -Sterling > > Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, > > Webmaster IDG.nl > Melvyn Sopacua > > <@Logan> I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident. > <@Logan> I was thinking "What the hell is this guy doing?" >