Moreover, you can transform XML into JSON via specific XSLT True, I forgot to mention it in my post, XSL just transform, and similar structures can use the same XSL so another reason to prefer it over php in the html. Regards > Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:47:56 -0400 > From: aballard@xxxxxxxxx > To: fsb@xxxxxxxxxx > CC: nrixham@xxxxxxxxx; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: templating engine options > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Tom Worster <fsb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > thanks for taking the trouble to write your requirements. it made > > interesting reading. > > > > i've questions on three points below... > > > > > > On 5/25/09 6:44 PM, "Nathan Rixham" <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> XSL Templates are near perfect, built for the job, and very powerful - > >> but time hasn't favoured them well; and until (if ever) a wide spread > >> adoption happens something else needs to fill the gap. > > > > i don't know xsl well, but from what i read it seems to be about taking data > > from one xml document and putting it into another. > > Not really. The most common use may be that, but xsl can convert an > XML document to pretty much any format you want and can even convert > between compatible encodings. (You would lose something to try to > convert from Chinese to Latin1, obviously, but you should be able to > convert from Latin1 to UTF-8 or from UTF-8 to UTF-16 if desired.) It > is even possible to go from XML to PDF. (I haven't tried it, so I > don't know how well it works.) > > [snip] > > one thing i wasn't clear about with xsl is whether or not there's any output > > language dependence? could i write a template to produce an sql file, or an > > email in russian? > > Exactly. The input XML document and the XSL stylesheet must both be > valid XML, but the output can be just about anything you want. You > could have an XML table definition and use XSL to translate that > structure into a valid SQL statements using that table in a specific > SQL vendor dialect. Those could be anything as simple as generating > CREATE TABLE statements to build a script to create a database or as > complex as building stored procedures against those tables. > > Andrew > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx
