Re: Sabloton XSL??

Matt Dunford writes: > Can anyone point me in the direction of some info on the new Sabloton > extension in php 4.0.3? I'm unable to find anything on the web nor on > php.net. > > Here's the configure option > --with-sablot[=DIR] Include Sablotron support Go to http://www.gingerall.com and download the binaries for Linux and install them (I put mine under /usr/local; PHP config will by default look there and under /usr, so you won't need to use the -DIR). When you compile PHP, though, you'll need to enable the zlib extension as well--and you'll need some way to force the sablot extension to link against the proper libxmltok and libxmlparse. For me, this involved a hack of ext/sablot/config.m4 to add the libraries, but I cannot profess to any deep understanding of the PHP build system at this level so someone else should guide you on this one. I don't want to disseminate screwy information. :) I've been messing with this for the last few days, and the only information I could find I have had to cobble together from the mailing list archives and the source. There are at least a couple of different ways to use it: one, you can use it as a full-on output transformation, basically meaning that any output from PHP is run through the XSLT transformation: function using_output_transformer($xml_filename, $xsl_filename) { xslt_output_begintransform($xsl_filename); readfile($xml_filename); /* You could also echo or whatever your XML data here... */ xslt_output_endtransform(); } Another way is to use it more like the expat XML extension: function using_xslt_run($xml_filename, $xsl_filename) { if (!$xslt = xslt_create()) { echo "Failed to create Sablotron parser.<br>\n"; return false; } else { echo "Created Sablotron parser with handle ID '$xslt'<br>\n"; } if (xslt_run($xslt, $xsl_filename, $xml_filename)) { echo "xslt_run() appears to have succeeded<br>\n"; } else { echo "xslt_run() failed<br>\n"; return false; } echo xslt_fetch_result($xslt); xslt_free($xslt); return true; } Hope this at least gets you started. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+