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

On 13 Mar 2000, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello Andi, > > On 13-Mar-00 04:18:13, you wrote: > > >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?) > > There are some C libraries around that maybe used. Are they free? Do you have pointers? Maybe we could use them in PHP. > > > >BTW, I thought the web browser is supposed to know how to apply XSL style > >sheets to XML. > > Only some browsers can do it, which for many purposes it is not good > enough. In the end you often want to generate HTML on the server side > that is more appropriate for the world. Some solutions of serving XML > rely on Java applets, but I wouldn't rely on that if I could use a much > more browser independent solution, not to speak that Java applets are not > exactly the ideal solution when it comes to speed. I wouldn't rely on an applet either. Andi