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

Hi, Lucas Wartenburger wrote: > > > As I have been saying doing XML-XSL processing to serve > > pages at online > > time is a waste of performance, especially when there are much more > > faster and objective methods. [...] > > Sure, it wouldn't be a very fast solution, It's was I thought a couple of months ago, but I have tried it and I have been surprised by the performance of such a solution (using XT from James Clark which is one of the fastest java XSLT translator). If you want to give it a try, I have just launched <XML>fr (http://xmlfr.org), a french language portal dedicated to XML which I have designed to be also a showcase for these technologies. Even a page like the front page (http://xmlfr.org) which is consolidating, on line, data from 8 different XML documents through a XSLT transformation is not so slow... A simple page like the site presentation in english (http://xmlfr.org/infos/english/) is only using 2 XML documents and you'll see that it's quite fast. I hope you'll enjoy the site even if there is no PHP :=) Eric > but there are lots of > advantages that many people still don't see: > Imagine, you want to develop a web-interface for a database, which is > used to store specific XML-documents. > Now: how to transform this into HTML (maybe later to PDF, LaTeX, > whatever). > This transformation is the only "intelligent" aspect of your whole > application: It's not very difficult to develop your own XML-format > for your documents, but it's quite useless without transformation. > > For the moment, it would be easier and faster to let PHP-code (using > XML and DOM-XML) do this transformation. But then, the "intelligence" > of your application would be in the code - whenever you want to change > the layout (or add a new one), you'll have to edit the code. > > Using XSLT, the intelligence would be stored in your XSL-scripts > (that's why it's hard to write them, but it's easier to read and edit > existing ones). This makes it much easier to change the layout of your > whole application without having to touch your PHP-code. In some > cases, this aspect of flexibility is more important than speed (btw: > CPUs are getting cheaper, programmers / designers are getting more > expansive...). > > I've started developing such an application 6 months ago, but the > PHP-XSL-integration-part is still missing. So I'm very thankful for > this discussion. > > lucas > > _________________________________________________________________ > email: lucas@wartenburger.de > fax : +49-89-2443-20203 (vlf.net) > pgp1 : 5E19 F0A9 E27B A465 7CF6 B86A 3B0F 10BB F4C1 3490 (DSS/DH) > pgp2 : E946 C625 8A87 CBEE EAD9 FDF1 59B0 5EFF (RSA) > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://xmlfr.org http://ducotede.com http://dyomedea.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------