Re: Php and XSL

[Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One advantage of adding XSL is flexibility in format. You could do this:

Database > PHP > XML 

Then use XSL to transform the XML document into multiple formats: HTML, RSS feed, CSV, PDF, plain text, etc. This would be useful if you want to let Web visitors download a page in different formats, or if you need to provide the same information to different users in different formats. 

If you ONLY want to produce HTML files, then XSL may not be worth the extra effort. Just stick with Database > PHP > HTML.

Kelly

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Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Php and XSL

Unless the data in your database is XML, I don't see why you'd want or need
to use XSL.  You'd be adding another level of complexity.  And the ultimate
product would be HTML.  So, you'd be doing this:
database -> SQL -> XML -> XSL -> HTML
instead of this:
database -> SQL -> HTML

Either way you'll still need to use PHP/SQL to access the database.

Thanks,
Todd Allen
EDPS
Electronic Data Processing Services
tallen@xxxxxxxxxxxx



                                                                           
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de TAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I'm not following you here.  XSL is used to transform an XML
> document to another form, such as HTML.  What would you be
> using as your source to translate?  The final document would
> ultimately be HTML since that is what the browser expects.
> XSL would be add another layer and slow things down a bit.

I think I would have to convert my mysql data to xml first. I'm not too
concerned about performance. Its a case of using my XSL skills to do my web
site, or relying on my lack of php skills and not doing my website. At the
moment, I have php reading from a mysql database and generating HTML. Now I
want to generate HTML with XSL/XML. I was wondering if I could mix the two
(php and xsl) but maybe that's not possible.





 
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