Re: New XSLT class for PEAR

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 17:25, Christian Stocker wrote: > 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.. addition to that: I never tested this, but I assume, that it's much faster to let sablotron read and parse the xml/xslt files directly from the filesystem, especially if the files are big. I'd assume, that if you read it first into php-memory, you have the document twice in the memory, once as flat string and once as dom-tree within sablotron... But I could be wrong... chregu > > 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 -- 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