PHP - XML and XSL Transformation

[ph_eze_nouz]

Hi,

Is there a way to transform a XML using a XSL template using PHP4? Do you need to install external modules? Is the simpliest way to install PHP5?

Many thanks

pH

[davidpbrown]

I've no experience of server side XSLT processing but the XSLT FAQ - Server Side [dpawson.co.uk] suggests

Many XSLT processors come with built-in servlet support. For example, with SAXON, if you install the supplied SaxonServlet class in your servlets directory, then you can process an XML document simply by using a URL such as

mysite.com/servlets/SaxonServlet?source=source-url.xml&style=stylesheet.xsl

The output of the stylesheet processing will be displayed in the browser.

(I'm not sure what PHP can do with XSL that isn't better tackled by an XSLT processor)

[ph_eze_nouz]

Hi David,

many thanks for this post ;) Also, I will prefer to use a full PHP environment (if possible) to do this transformation. I saw that in PHP5, you can load a XML and a XSL as:

<?php
/* Load the two XML sources */
$xml = new DomDocument; // from /ext/dom
$xml->load('example.xml');

$xsl = new DomDocument;
$xsl->load('example.xsl');

/* Configure the transformer */
$proc = new xsltprocessor;
$proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules
echo $proc->transformToXML($xml); // actual transformation
?>

How present is PHP5 on the Internet? Any idea in PHP4?

Thx

pH

[davidpbrown]

suggesting PHP can do XSLT!.. that's interesting.

Is yours not a question of whether you have PHP5 avaliable on your server? Pre-processing isn't something dependant on the client side.

[ph_eze_nouz]

Hi,

I know that the pre-processing is based on the server ;) My concern is based on the scalability of the project. I wouldn't like to have the entire project based on PHP5 and then have all servers around providing only PHP4 ;)

I'll check how present is PHP5 before continuing ;)

In all the case, many thanks for your help ;)

pH