Re: [PHP4BETA] XSL module in PHP4

Since there already the expat, I guess I am not that thrill to replace expat with Xerces to gain the validation feature. I like the expat, which is lean and mean! :) Morever, PHP is a server-side scripting language, and its forte is in the area of dynamically generating pages quickly; thus validating XML documents can be done offline or much less frequent than cranking out the response pages (either HTML or XML). I don't think the main purpose of PHP is to become a general programing language, to write software tools or utilities. However, I believe that PHP is missing the XSL functionality, and try to squeeze the XSL functionality through Java (allowing PHP to call Java class) is awkward as best. Regards, Ly Vuong --- PHP Developers List wrote: > > On a smiliar note, has anyone considering integrating Xerces, the Open > Source XML/SAX parser that the Apache project is now working on? The > added benefit here would be that it is a validating parser, unlike the > current expat libraries that PHP uses. Check out xml.apache.org if you > are curious. Is the Apache License the issue? Any ideas? > > Sean > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Anh (Ly) Vuong wrote: > > > > > I vote for the Xalan, C/C++ version, making it a SO module, which > > then other processes can use. Count me in if we are going to do this. > > > > Cheers, > > Ly Vuong > > --- > > Victor Burwitz wrote: > > > > > > Is anyone working on a XSL (specially on a XSLT part) module? > > > > > > I evaluated the market for XSL libraries. The most promissing approaches > > > were XT by James Clark (the author of Expat, currently used in PHP and > > > in XML::Perl and quite some other products, a very good engine) and > > > Xalan > > > by the Apache Group. > > > > > > The problem with XT is that is just available and by the contact I had > > > to J.Clark it looks like he has no idea if he is going to port it to > > > C/C++. > > > > > > The problem with Xalan is that it is just available in a final release > > > for Java and the existing C/C++ version just runs on Win32 (which suckx, > > > to say it directly). > > > I am shure that will change but I do not know if that is a good sign of > > > quality > > > (do not understand me wrong I am no MS hater, just long time > > > experience). > > > > > > I specially think these two products would be good, since: > > > - they are open source > > > - will have or have already a wide base of users > > > - do not use something like the mozilla license > > > - have a high grade of functionality (at least in their Java versions) > > > > > > What will come? Anyone any Ideas? > > > > > > Victor Burwitz > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > -- > > 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 > >