Thursday, 19 April 2007

Learn to Make a XML/XSLT Driven Site Using PHP

XML and XSLT technologies provide standard ways of separation of presentation and data. An article over the AnyExample.com shows you an example of simple PHP 'XSLT engine' for XML driven web-sites which implements caching techniques and Apache-based XML file processing.

First, the author sets up the engine to process every *.xml file on web server. To accelerate this process, he uses a sample of Apache directives. He also gives a description of the directives from the Apache documentation—Addhandler, Action. After this setup, he talks about three code blocks, one for each of the 'moving parts' of the sample application - the XML content, the XSLT template to style it, and the PHP to bring them both together.