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XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications

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From Issue #95
March 2002

Mar 01, 2002  By Cameron Laird
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Cameron introduces XSLT and shows why it's such a hot topic in application development.
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Re: XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/12/2002 - 03:00.

While this article is an interesting introduction, I am very surprised that it would manage to not even mention libxslt which is probably one of the fastest, most reliable, and most frequently deployed processors, and AxKit which is similar to Cocoon in various ways, but less overdesigned and implemented within Apache using a powerful combination of C and Perl. Both are extremely succesful projects, with constantly growing user bases.

As for XSLT being more used by Tcl and Java folks than by Perl, Python, and C folks I think that's simply wrong, and is no more than an impression gathered from an incomplete sample.

Finally, as the author mentions benchmarks it would be nice to see them! I have no doubt that tDOM beats any pure Java XSLT processor flat, but what of the others? Beating libxslt (both for memory and for speed) appears to me to be a tough task. Even if tDOM were faster, I very much doubt it would be "twice as fast" as claimed rather boldly in this article.

Mod_xslt - ultimate XSLT engine for the web

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/09/2002 - 03:00.

Check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_xslt_ln/

and http://linuxnews.pl as an example of XML/XSLT technology.

With the mod_xslt you can for example pass the arguments to the XSLT programs.

Example of this is forum system on Linuxnews.pl

regards,

Pumpkin

mod_xobjex for Apache 1.3.x uses libxslt

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Submitted by Daniel Bibbens (not verified) on Tue, 02/08/2005 - 20:48.

Similar to mod_xslt, mod_xobjex is a lighter, faster alternative that uses Daniel Veillard's libxslt (which is blazingly fast). With mod_xobjex, web applications are built with pure XSLT. mod_xobjex converts the HTTP Request into XML to which the requested XSL template is applied. Download it at xobjex.com.

XSLT, DOM, SQL and the web

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/25/2002 - 03:00.

This paper may be of interest to those looking to publish data from relational databases on the net using XSLT.

Re: XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/16/2002 - 03:00.

www.zvon.org hosts an excellent XSLT reference - a lot easier than reading the W3C documents :-)

If you just want to try out some XSLT examples, here's (http://www.julien-dubois.com) a server-side XSLT transformer, so that you don't need anything on your PC to get you started.

Re: XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications

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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/15/2002 - 03:00.

The "How To Start XSLT Programming" link mentions the 0.63 code snap shot. The xslt engine in tDOM-0.7test is much improoved in XSLT compliance. Grab it from

http://sdf.lonestar.org/~loewerj/tdom.cgi

rolf ade

Re: XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/15/2002 - 03:00.

And for those who want a fast and compliant XSLT
engine, use xsltproc available from the libxslt package on
most distributions. It is used by KDE and Gnome to generate
the HTML version of their DocBook docs.
Check the web page
and download area for further
informations, packages and the source !
Daniel Veillard

Re: XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/19/2002 - 03:00.

Yes! Daniel Veillard's libraries and utilities are definitely the way to go for production-quality work with XSLT; they chew through huge groves with speed. It's a true open-source success and deserves more appreciation.

If you're interested in tracking XSLT's growth and maturation, check out the newest version of Michael Kay's SAXON - larger, slower, but also very cool.

Paul Ford

Re: XSLT Powers a New Wave of Web Applications

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/14/2002 - 03:00.

The way I got started with XSLT was Sablotron; which is available here.. If you use perl, it is nice because it's a perl module; and it also has a command line vesion similar to the tcl command mentioned above. You don't need TCL though; just configure && make && make install.

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