[FX.php List] Anyone using XSLT anymore?

[Dale Bengston]

Kooky. Good description. I am very happy I'd already cast my lot with  
PHP.
Dale

On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:53 AM, DC wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Did you ever get the caching solution down? Also, did you try a  
> redesign of the HTML deployment system with the HTML files stored  
> in the filesystem and the FMP database holding the paths? I would  
> think an include() php call would be faster than trying to dump  
> HTML files out of FMP.
>
> I looked at XSLT when I first went to the web with FMP and it  
> looked so kooky that I scrambled for other options. Luckily I found  
> FX.php just in time. Thanks, Chris.
>
> I believe that the XSLT engine deals with the raw XML out of FMP  
> WPE. In FX.php there is a translation stage where XML is changed  
> from XML to PHP arrays. That adds some overhead. But, XSLT has  
> another problem that FX does not: the relative numbers of people  
> who can design, maintain and fix an XSLT system is very small.
>
> Furthermore, going with XSLT will not help your old client with  
> their main problem which is an architectural problem: they want to  
> host and serve HTML files from inside an FMP database instead of in  
> the filesystem where they belong. In fact, the best system would be  
> to host the HTML files in the database AND on the filesystem. That  
> way they can use FMP search features to search and then use the  
> filesystem paths to serve HTML.
>
> just some random thoughts,
> dan
>
> On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:25 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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