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

Hello Lucas, On 14-Mar-00 16:08:21, you 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, 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 Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org -- E-mail: mlemos@acm.org URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp --