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

> >But it may be ugly document which is hard to manage, > >because you mix > >structure (your own "hi-energy" tags) with presentation > >classical HTML > >tags like <table>, <font>, ... > > Right, but for the end users that is irrelevant. Any > browser may display > XHTML and that's what matters. Users could not care less of > separation of > content from data, that's a programmers concern. The > original poster already > has his data separated in the database. Serving HTML/XHTML > is just a > matter of insering that data into HTML templates. You cannot put any kind of data into the structure of a relational database. (Actually, the thing I'm working on is about juridical documents - their structure is not as straight as you need it to fit it into fields and tables). But you _can_ do it in XML. That's why I want to store it _in_ XML (as text-field). I've developed a specific XML-format that represents the structure of these documents - this has nothing to do with (X)HTML. And _if_ I want to show it to a web-client (that's not the only purpose of the format), I transform it to XHTML using XSLT. [...] > >> I can see you never tried any of that in practice or > >> else you wouldn't be > >> say what you are saying. My XSL-Transformations are working, I just don't use PHP to call it. Anyway, I don't have to justify anything, because I know what I'm saying (and I know what is - and what is not - appropriate style of writing on a list about people and projects I even don't know). Bye Lucas