Comments on: What a Thursday Night http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2004/09/03/what-a-thursday-night/ The weblog of Joshua Eichorn, AJAX, PHP and Open Source Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:21:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: liz http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2004/09/03/what-a-thursday-night/#comment-120 liz Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:08:09 +0000 http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2004/09/03/what-a-thursday-night/#comment-120 I believe xslt is cool too, I wish there were nifty CLIENT SIDE things to do transformations for you - but here's a really simplied version of the problem with using xslt... In php you grab stuff from a db, file, whatever, put it in a template and display it...or you grab stuff from a db, format it to xml, apply xsl stylesheet transformation, and then display it. See in essence you shove two extra steps in there - just like you shove extra steps in when you parse and compile templates :) I believe xslt is cool too, I wish there were nifty CLIENT SIDE things to do transformations for you - but here’s a really simplied version of the problem with using xslt…

In php you grab stuff from a db, file, whatever, put it in a template and display it…or you grab stuff from a db, format it to xml, apply xsl stylesheet transformation, and then display it. See in essence you shove two extra steps in there - just like you shove extra steps in when you parse and compile templates :)

]]> By: Dinh http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2004/09/03/what-a-thursday-night/#comment-107 Dinh Sun, 05 Sep 2004 10:10:06 +0000 http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2004/09/03/what-a-thursday-night/#comment-107 XSLT is very cool. But I wonder if it could lead to some overhead in parsing XML files each time a PHP page loaded. XSLT is very cool. But I wonder if it could lead to some overhead in parsing XML files each time a PHP page loaded.

]]> By: Manuzhai http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2004/09/03/what-a-thursday-night/#comment-102 Manuzhai Sat, 04 Sep 2004 01:26:03 +0000 http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2004/09/03/what-a-thursday-night/#comment-102 Why not just use XSLT? It's a W3C standard, quite powerful, quite nice. Why not just use XSLT? It’s a W3C standard, quite powerful, quite nice.

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