RE: [PHP] Re: PHP & XML

Hi, > I am all for the power of XML, another benefit is the ability to have > many themes for your viewer. Plus, if you are writing a CMS or portal > of some sort you can have your users create their own themes without > ever touching the data layers. > > They just need to create some XSLT pages and that is it. That's exactly what we've done in our Komplete product, based on the Krysalis platform. Separate the presentation from the logic, so new site presentation layers are added over the application logic easily. http://www.interakt.ro/products/Komplete/ This is based on the powerful site definition features in Krysalis, that allow you to group requests per pipelines. > Another benefit is RSS and allowing users to pull information from your > website. Heaven knows that u want your users to frequent ur website. > So you can allow them to pull info directly. RSS generation is indeed a piece of cake with Krysalis, and we'll inc lude a sample in our forthcoming release. > Also a great way to incorporate a cacheing system as well. We have this too. Powerful caching with application logic execut ion or not. However, we cache the PXP pages (used for dynamic XML generatio n) and the site definition in pure PHP pages, so there is a very little ov erhead with the XML approach over the standard PHP generation (we hav e some comparative benchmarks that will be published soon on our website) http://www.interakt.ro/products/Krysalis/ Alexandru