Re: Re: PHP & XML

The benefit would be in dividing business logic from presentation layer. Stas. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Taylor" <simon.taylor@afritol.co.za> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:35 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: PHP & XML > To me this is a lot of work and processing for limited benefits, a simple db > abstraction layer provides you with a divide between you db queries and the > presentation of your site, what benefits do you see in doing this? > Cheers > Simon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandru COSTIN [mailto:acostin@iakt.rdsnet.ro] > Sent: 15 October 2002 18:50 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Re: PHP & XML > > > Hello, > > Most of what you are looking for is already implemented and fully working in > > our Krysalis Professional platform. > > We help you create dynamic XML files, we provide you reusable taglibs to > avoid rewriting similar code multiple times, wr provide various levels of > caching and many more. > > Please se more details at : http://www.interakt.ro/products/ > > Alexandru > > > Let me preface this by saying that I know the benefits of using XML > > with regards to portability and extensibility. Here is the issue I > > face. I have all of my data stored in a MySQL database. I'm > > considering reworking my website so that it uses XML (after being > > converted from resultant records in my DB) to transmit & XSLT to > > transform and display the data to my end user. There are a few > > benifits I can see in sending XML messages as part of the back end > > processing. However, that seems to be out- weighed by the amount of > > processing that's going to need to take place in actually serving the > > data to the user. First I have to query and pull the records from the > > database. Then, I need to send those records to a function (or > > functions) to convert it to XML. Then, I need to take that XML data > > and have PHP use an XSL stylesheet to transform it to HTML before it, > > finally, gets sent on to the browser. So that's basically 2 > > conversions that take place on the back end. > > How much experience have any of you had with doing that? Does > > it take significantly longer to serve the pages; is there a noticible > > performance hit? Do you realize more benifit for the back end > > processes when using XML that makes any additional time it takes > > to display a page to the user worth it? > > I'd love to hear about people's experience with this kind of thing so I > > can better make a decision wrt whether or not I should even go down > > this route. > > > > thnx, > > Chris > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >