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

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: Hi Andi, > Any reason not to implement an XSL module for PHP? > How difficult is it? It might even be feasible to implement it as part of > PEAR in PHP using the XML support we have right now (or domxml?) XSL module (or more precisely XSLT processor) is quite complicated and power compsuming stuff of software, so it would not be good idea to implement it directly in PHP. There are existing XSLT processors which are in Java or C++. The easiest way is probably to write only interface functions to existing XSLT processor. In C++ is written Xalan, which is part of XML Apache Project (xml.apache.org). > BTW, I thought the web browser is supposed to know how to apply XSL style > sheets to XML. Only IE5.0 knows this, and it support only draft version of XSLT (but it is possible to update it by preview version of new MS XML library). Mozilla can be compiled to support XSL. Other browsers, AFAIK, does not directly support XSLT. If you transform XML document on server, you can use different stylesheets for different clients -- one for HTML browser, one for mobile phones with WAP and so on. Jirka ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz