Re: [SMARTY] XML+XSLT or Smarty?

Hey, Luis, have you checked our Krysalis Foundation platform? It's a very powerful platform designed to help you create XML/XSL applications. http://www.interakt.ro/products/Krysalis/ Alexandru -- Alexandru COSTIN Chief Operating Officer http://www.interakt.ro/ +4021 411 2610 "Luis" <luis@fuegolabs.com> wrote in message news:023a01c2f475$aa6ebc10$2b00a8c0@fuegolabs.com... > You can use both. > For example you can have an XML representation for some objects and use > XSLT to render the object in different presentations. > You can also have a set off different Smarty templates for presentations > and use the proper XML transformation depending on the presentation > being used. > A possible idea is to use Smarty for all the layout and pages in your > site and XML+XSLT for displaying objects in your pages. For example you > can have an XML document representing an "article" and use XSLT to > transform the article to HTML, WML or say PDF. > There're many options. > What I wouldn't do is to use XML+XSLT to generate HTML pages for your > site or application that's usually hard to maintain, a Smarty template > is much simple and easy to maintain than an XSLT transformation. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hardik Doshi [mailto:php_hardik@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:13 PM > To: Smarty General; Smarty Dev > Subject: [SMARTY] XML+XSLT or Smarty? > > Hello Everyone, > > I am writing a PHP based student management portal and > library management software for one graduate college. > I am looking the possibility of using template engine > in my web based applications. After initial research i > come with two ideas namely Smarty template engine and > XML+XSLT technology. Now i need feedback from Smarty > template community about advantages of smarty over > XML+XSLT or in either way. > > Please guide me in proper direction based on your > experience with above two different template engines. > > Thanks in advance. > > Hardik Doshi > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > -- > Smarty General Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >