Re: [xsl] Create a web interface to query a XML database

[Vyacheslav Sedov <vyacheslav.sedov@xxxxxxxxx>]

if man is newcomer to XSLT - it is better to begin to learn XSLT 2.0 -
so eXist is best option :)

p.s. Russian Linux -
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
>
>> Well, I just wanted to let you know what I intend to you, perhaps you
>> can advice me some way to go. Am I on the right path? Is XSLT/XQuery
>> easier or better than PHP-MySQL if my data is already in XML format?
>
> XSLT can be used to transform XML to HTML and it can take parameters so you
> can certainly write an XSLT stylesheet that takes search terms as
parameters
> and then searches and transforms your XML input source into HTML. If you
> have PHP 5 on the server then it comes with support for running XSLT 1.0
> transformations with the help of libxslt I think.
>
> So that approach is possible. Whether it is better in terms of memory
> consumption and performance on a web server than putting the data in a
MySQL
> database you will have to measure.
>
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>
>        Martin Honnen
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