[FX.php List] Anyone using XSLT anymore?

[Bob Patin]

That's what I thought too, Dale; they had this guy who was trying to  
tell them that doing the project in XSLT (as opposed to PHP) was  
going to produce faster results. I wanted to make sure that I was  
right when I told them that XSLT still had to convert to XML, just  
like PHP does...


On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Yes, the XSLT supported by FileMaker uses XML from the Web  
> Publishing Engine, just like FX. Personally, I never used the XSLT  
> stuff with FileMaker because I made the PHP switch before v7 came out.
>
> Dale
>
> On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
>> I have a client who's been trying to do the impossible in  
>> FileMaker, storing HUGE HTML files in a FileMaker table and then  
>> trying to get them to display rapidly on the web. We reached a  
>> brick wall with speed (there would be about a half-million records  
>> in the database), so they moved on to another consultant who has  
>> been talking to them about using XSLT.
>>
>> My question is this: doesn't XSLT use the same WPE that FX.php  
>> does? Doesn't the data still have to be translated to XML? Would  
>> there be any speed improvement by using XSLT over PHP? And  
>> finally, do you guys know of anyone even using XSLT anymore?
>>
>> Thanks for any opinions,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
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