Re: [PHP3] Re: [PHP Template] Template Discussion

Thomas Jespersen wrote:
> I have not been following this "template" discussion before, but I
> just started looking at it today so perhaps I am wrong here, but:
> 
> Are the templates you want to make not more or less the same as XSL? 
> http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
> 
> I would certainly love to see a XSL Processor in PHP3.

XSL sucks raw eggs. I have no need for sed with syntactic sugar
or sendmail style pattern matching when I can have the full
power of PHP. I want to parse the HTML/XML in a file into a
document tree, then apply transformation functions written in
PHP to that tree and dump the resulting tree to a socket. 

As soon as I have that, I may look into a method to translate
XSL into PHP code and execute them so that I may read XSL
transformations as well, but that is no issue that I think is
particularly urgent. Why learn another language with less power
when I can achieve better results by using PHP directly?

Kristian

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