Re: XSL and php or rpg

[Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've thought about it before, but do you want to do the transform (to HTML,
PDF, Excel, or whatever) on the server or the client? I think newer web
browsers can now do the XSL transform natively, but at the time I was
investigating doing the transform on the server. Unfortunately, I didn't get
very far and haven't looked at this in years.
Loyd
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:48 AM, David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just read an article that shows how to clean up php code using xsl.
>  The script would simply generate xml instead of html which would be left to
> the xsl processor. As someone who is only a debutant in php but not bad in
> xsl, this looks like a great idea. I don't see why it would not be a great
> idea even for an expert in php. The article is already 10 years old, so I
> wondered if there are any disadvantages to this way of doing things as I
> have not read of such a technique before. Also, couldn't the same technique
> be applied to developping with CGIDEV? I have only a little experience with
> this, but wouldn't it be so much simpler if the rpg program only had to
> generate XML?
>
> http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/get-xsl-dirty-work