Re: [PHP4BETA] Can PHP do XML + XSL = HTML stuff ?

From: Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:50:12 +0000
Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] Can PHP do XML + XSL = HTML stuff ?
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----- Original Message ----- From: Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> To: Lukasz Felsztukier <L.Felsztukier@digitalone.pl> Cc: <php4beta@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 1:24 AM Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] Can PHP do XML + XSL = HTML stuff ? > >Think of a simple situation where you want to grab some data from a database > >and display.. That's when it all makes sense - dynamic XML... > > Honestly I don't see what's the sense of taking some data to generate XML > from it and then generate HTML from the XML data, even less doing that at > page serve needlessly overloading the server. Why don't you generate HTML > or if you prefer XHTML (XML compliant HTML) directly? > No - you take XML file, XSL stylesheets, grab some data from a database (updated often - no need to cache, all files are relatively small and there is few of them - no overloading) and produce HTML. How can I do this ? It's rather important to me :-) Cheers, Lukasz

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