Re: [PHP4BETA] XSL module in PHP4

The lack of XSLT support is what made me left PHP for Java in my newest site... My purpose is not to say that it's a big loss for the PHP community :=) but rather to share some nice features I have found working with XT under a Java environment which could be considered for a PHP implementation. The communication between Java and XT is real fine. You can map Java classes to namespaces, call methods and get the return values back. These result values can scalars but also result tree fragments returned through sax events. On a similar way, you can define custom output methods which are receiving the result of a XSLT transformation as sax events and can add extra treatments and formatting. (I have published some examples using these features under http://downloads.dyomedea.com/java/examples/) All this is allowing to mix the power of a declarative language as XSLT and the flexibility of a procedural language which could be PHP with sax as the interface between the 2 worlds... Hope this helps Eric 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://xmlfr.org http://ducotede.com http://dyomedea.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------