Re: New XSLT class for PEAR

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:42:43 -0800 Dan Kuykendall <dan@kuykendall.org> wrote: > Christian Stocker wrote: > > 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... > > I didnt spend a ton of time to understand the existing XSLT_Wrapper > because it seemed to make it even more comlicated to use XSLT than > just using PHP's built in XSLT. I may have missed something and do > plan on a more detailed look. I do like the other XSLT class for the > purpose of choosing an XSLT engine to use, but I dont really see why > its all that important since PHP's xslt support is working pretty > well. It provides the common functions to set xml data, xsl sheets and returns the result as a string or as a file. Besides that a batch mode is available. The main goal is to provide a common interface to create XSL transformation with every common XSLT engine available. It is usefull to quickly test a transformation with many engines, or to create a publication application that does require a specific extension. Besides that, sometimes, we need a specific engine, which provide results that do not work with others, using it, you skip the implementation of the specific parts. Actually, I use it to publish documentations from OpenOffice and Word and to test my XSL sheets with supported XSLT engines. I keep in mind that is not a tool to use to generate dynamic contents in an application, but more a generation tool or for a local XSLT application (as I use it). > > 4) Building a template system around XSLT??? mmmh, doesn't make much > > sense to me ;) > > Well, I can agree, but I keep running into people who dont want to > construct the XML. Hmmm, they may think to use classic html template then ;-) > Even using XML_Tree seems to throw off some people > (which is the reason for my importVar() addition to XML_Tree). > I will take a look at doing this later today. Feel free to ask if needed, as it is still alpha, changes are are not a problem. hth pierre