Re: New XSLT class for PEAR

Hi I just looked quickly through your code... 1) I like the "browser supports xslt"-idea, but why aren't you building the idea into the existing XSLT wrapper? 2 different XSLT-Wrappers won't get my +1... 2) Mozilla > 0.9.4 supports xslt as well 3) reading the xml/xsl into php memory and then sending to Sablotron is (IMHO) quite stupid, Sablotron can read from the file system. Somehow this should be supported, too.. 4) Building a template system around XSLT??? mmmh, doesn't make much sense to me ;) 5) There are other XSLT-Processors in PHP (mainly libxslt, but see 1) for that matter) That's about it. Therefore, my proposal for you: Integrate the "send-xslt-to-supporting-browsers" into the existing XSLT-Wrapper (and make it optional..) and build your templating-system around this and XML_Tree. chregu On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 17:11, Dan Kuykendall wrote: > I wrote another XSLT class that I hope can be included with PEAR. > > This class is a wrapper for PHP's XSLT support. Its makes it easier to > use XSLT, and also adds a feature which can take a good amount of load > off of the server. > The class will attempt to discover if the client/browser has a decent > XSLT engine. So far it only supports IE 5.5+, but as soon as mozilla > fixed a couple things with its XSLT support I will add it. > > If it decides that the browser has XSLT, then it will just send the XML > to the browser and let the browser handle rendering into HTML, and save > the server from the hassle. > Otherwise it will use PHP's XSLT support to render the HTML which can > then be sent to the browser. > > All the details and the package itself can be found at > http://www.kuykendall.org/xmltools/Xslt.html > > Im planning to add a templating class which will depend on this class as > well as PEAR's XML_Tree. It will work like many template classes in that > it will allow the user to simply set vars in the class. The template > class will handle converting the resulting vars into XML and then go > thru the XSLT process. This conversion will also depend on a function I > wrote for XML_Tree which enables XML_Tree to automaticly convert an > array into its XML nodes, thereby making it super easy to convert an > array into XML with just a few commands. The function has been submitted > to the XML_Tree maintainers, but can also be found at > http://www.kuykendall.org/xmltools/importVar.txt > > I dont know how the voting process is supposed to work, but I would like > to have the class reviewed and opened up for a vote. I have alot I would > like to contribute to PEAR. > > Im working on a completely new version of phpGroupWare which will sit on > top of PEAR. Im the founder of phpGroupWare and initially resisted PEAR. > However I did not anticipate how well PEAR would turn out and I now am > convinced that this is a collection of very quality code, and really > want to contribute to this great project. > > Dan Kuykendall -- christian stocker | bitflux GmbH | schoeneggstrasse 5 | ch-8004 zurich phone +41 1 240 56 70 | mobile +41 76 561 88 60 | fax +41 1 240 56 71 http://www.bitflux.ch | chregu@bitflux.ch | gnupg-keyid 0x5CE1DECB