Re: Parsing XML

Ashley Sheridan wrote: > I still disagree, as using XSL is essentially converting the XML to > another format, Which is all you're doing when you're extracting parts of an XML document. > which is then being used by PHP. XSL is great for some tasks, but for > this, I think having a good PHP XMLDoc (or similar type of) class is > better. Ash, I'd really like to hear you argue why you think so. I can't help thinking it's a bit like saying "I know there is a compiler for C-code, but I prefer to convert to assembler by using PHP". I know it's not quite that bad, but I hope you get my point. > On a slightly aside note though, how would you apply the XSL to the > XML using PHP? Roughly like this: (this is from a project I'm currently working on). -------------- // create the xslt processor object if ( FALSE===($xp=new XSLTProcessor()) ) { print "unable to create xslt engine"; return FALSE; } // Load the XML source $xml=new DOMDocument; $xml->loadXML($list); // then load the XSL stylesheet $xsl=new DOMDocument; $xsl->load('getfilebypos.xsl'); // attach the stylesheet $xp->importStyleSheet($xsl); $pos=$_GET['pos']; $xp->setParameter('', array('pos' => $_GET['pos']) ); $file=$xp->transformToXML($xml); ------------ $file in this case is just a single filename, no XML. My input data has a list of filenames, the 'pos' argument from the URI identifies one I need to process. /Per Jessen, Zürich