[PHP-DEV] Re: [php-xml] Re: [PHP-DEV] XSLT extension From: Rael Dornfest (rael <email protected>)
Date: 09/22/00

Howdy,

Sablotron: http://www.gingerall.com/charlie-bin/get/webGA/act/sablotron.act
Xalan: http://xml.apache.org/xalan/

Rael

On 9/21/00 4:12 PM, Carl Parrish at cparrish <email protected> wrote:

> Can someone please point me to where I can find information on either Xalan
> or Sablotron?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl Parrish
> Webmaster
> Datasoft.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sterling Hughes <sterling <email protected>>
> To: Joey Smith <joey <email protected>>; PHP XML List
> <php-xml <email protected>>
> Cc: PHP Developer List <php-dev <email protected>>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:36 AM
> Subject: [php-xml] Re: [PHP-DEV] XSLT extension (fwd)
>
>
>>
>>> Just thought some of the folks over on the php-xml list might have some
>>> input here.
>>>
>>> So far the general consensus appears to be:
>>> Sablotron is not 100% conformant, but there are equal concerns regarding
>>> the stability of Xalan.
>>>
>>
>> Those things are going to change. Xalan-C++ is going to come out of
> Alpha,
>> Sablotron is also going to fully support the XSL specification (to be
> accurate,
>> Xalan-C++ doesn't fully support it yet, but it is somewhat closer than
>> Sablotron). Also, both projects are open source, have an active community
> of
>> developers, support a variety of platforms and are constantly growing...
>>
>> I think the main choice is between the API's and for me I'd have to choose
>> Sablotron hands down (however, that's biased on two accounts, one I wrote
> the
>> Sablotron extension, two, I strongly dislike C++).
>>
>> From what I've seen of both API's, Sablotron provides the same amount of
> power
>> as Xalan-C++ with a simpler to use and human documented API (Javadoc
>> documentation is fine, but, I prefer when documentation is written by a
> human to
>> the reader.) Sablotron also provides a C API which means that you don't
>> necessarily need C++ to use it, whereas, Xalan-C++ is just C++.
>>
>> Sablotron works off of Expat, and therefore also provides SAX based XML
> parsing
>> features (already implemented in the PHP extension). Xalan-C++ works off
> of
>> Xerces-C++ and therefore offers both DOM and SAX interfaces (of course PHP
>> supports libxml and Expat, so there is really no difference there).
>>
>> Right now, I'd stay with Sablotron (of course that's because I wrote the
>> extension), it currently supports:
>>
>> - Full XSL transformation support, it can transform files into
> variables,
>> variables into files, variables into variables etc.
>> - Output buffering tie-ins:
>>
>> <?php
>> xslt_output_begintransform("somefile.xsl");
>> // All output is transformed
>> xslt_output_endtransform();
>> ?>
>> -SAX based XML parser
>> -An error handling mechanism that provides descriptive errors, logging
> of
>> errors is also supported.
>> - A full resource API
>> - Full support for XSL parameters
>> - You can provide named buffers for data to be transformed to and by.
>>
>> -Sterling
>>
>>
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