Subject: Re: [xsl] Create a web interface to query a XML database From: Vyacheslav Sedov <vyacheslav.sedov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:15:27 +0400 |
XForms for Firefox 3.5 is here http://philipp.wagner.name/blog/2009/07/hooray-xforms-for-firefox-3-5-is-here / On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Manuel Souto Pico <m.soutopico@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I forgot to mention something which is important in taking a decision > as for what technology to use. With PHP-MySQL the user can send > queries to the database from a web form and get the results -- I > understood this can be done with XRX/XSLT/etc. However, with PHP-MySQL > I can also input data to the database and add new registers or > maintain the database updating the content of certain existing > registers, with phpmyadmin or with ad-hoc web forms. Can this be done > with the XML-based technologies? > > Cheers, Manuel > > > > 2009/10/1 Manuel Souto Pico <m.soutopico@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Dear Vyacheslav and Martin, >> >> Thanks a lot for your replies. I don't know what differences there are >> exactly between the two versions but everything I've done so far in >> XSLT was with version 2.0 (because I had to use for-each-groups, for >> example). I wouldn't mind using version 1.0, however. >> >> Martin, is PHP the only way I can create HTML forms to send the >> parameters to XSLT? Assuming I use PHP for that, the workflow would be >> something like PHP-HTML page with a form to enter the search term, >> which is sent to the XSLT stylesheet, which uses it in a if or when >> condition to produce a HTML page with the results, is all this >> correct? And everything happens on the server-side. >> >> I'm also having a look at the eXist sugggestion by Vyacheslav, thanks >> ;) It seems that implies using XForms as well as XQuery, but on the >> client-side, so your browser needs to have support for XForms >> (IExplorer does, but latest version of Firefox does not). >> >> Thanks a lot, I'll keep checking this thread and, if I eventually >> manage, will post a summary of my adventure ;) >> >> Cheers, Manuel >> >> 2009/9/30 Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>: >>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Martin Honnen >>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
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