Re: About XSL Transformation

Nathan Nobbe wrote:

this is basically a design decision on your part. since you are working w/ 2 programming languages, ie. php and xsl, you will need to determine how much logic is implemented in each language. i would recommend you devise a scheme early on in your application lifetime and stay consitent w/ the decisions you make. it will save you headaches in the long run. -nathan On 7/29/07, *Kelvin Park* <kelvinpark86@gmail.com <mailto:kelvinpark86@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Nathan Nobbe wrote:

build or modify the xml w/ php. or pickup a book on xsl :) -nathan On 7/29/07, *Kelvin Park* <kelvinpark86@gmail.com

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    wrote:

    I have an XML file with 10 products with their registered
    dates(dates
    when they were created).
    My XSL code is set so that it sorts the products in descending
    order(latest to oldest) by registered dates.
    I tried to declare xsl:variable to increment within
    xsl:for-each,
    however I ran in to some dead ends.
    How do I print only the 5 latest products?

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    Thanks!

    I checked out sitepoint's XSL book, and figured it out. I tried to
    do it
    with PHP, for me it seemed just a little bit more work than XSL
    transformation.

Since I'm not very familiar with XSL most of my applications are in PHP and XML (parsed from MYSQL). I have the current project's design planned out with just PHP/XML, however I felt like it was more convenient to just do the latest item print out part with XSL (couple of files). I might run in to some challenges when I get to pagination, I was thinking whether I should deviate a little bit from the plan to create XML/XSL pagination of list of items. This might just become all hybrid code with PHP and XSL, which I'm not looking forward to have.