Re: Re: About XSLT/XML Pagination

""Nathan Nobbe"" <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7dd2dc0b0707220819l3ac2579aw90a8a2f9b3f1bfb1@mail.gmail.com... > Tony, > > what are the trade offs between creating xml files and creating objects in > memory to > pass to the xslt processor? if arbitrary xml data is only going to be > used > on a single > dynamic page, then is it necessary to create a file? Although I say XML file I actually build and process it in memory. I only write a copy to disk for debugging purposes. The contents of the file (or document) is the same wherever it exists. > also, is there any reason to leverage the validation features of xml while > building a dynamic page? for instance assume data was drawn from a > database to create 1 or more xml files. would it make sense to validate > those new xml files prior to invoking the xslt processor, and optionally > not invoke the transformation process if the xml data is found to be > invalid? This would be overkill. If you are going to build and consume an XML document yourself there is no point in validating it. Remember that XML was originally designed as a format for data interchange, so validation is only necessary when you receive an XML document from a third party. -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org > thanks, > > -nathan > > On 7/22/07, Tony Marston <tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> You misunderstand that article. All pagination is done within the program >> code in order to construct the SQL query with the relevant LIMIT and >> OFFSET >> values. The entire result set is then extracted from the database and >> written to an XML file, and the XSL transforms the whole XML file into a >> single HTML document, after which the XML document is discarded. The HTML >> document contains hyperlinks which allow the user to select the number of >> rows per page and the desired page number and these selections are >> processed >> within the PHP code. There is no process which goes back to the previous >> XML >> file to extract just a subset of the rows that need to be displayed as >> each >> page is extracted directly from the database. >> >> -- >> Tony Marston >> http://www.tonymarston.net >> http://www.radicore.org >> >> "Kelvin Park" <kelvinpark86@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:46A3180B.3020900@gmail.com... >> > http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/xsl.html#a1 >> > This site generally explains how pagination is done with xslt and xml. >> > However it does not fully explain how to paginate the data when a >> certain >> > number of rows are printed. >> > For example, it wouldn't make another page after 100 item names were >> > printed out where total there are 1000 items that need to be printed >> out, >> > making it total 10 pages. >> > Do you know what should be added in order to make it work? >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >