Bob Smith wrote:
what tools /converters do I need on the server side to do transfer XML
with XSLT to (X)HTML?
( using linux S.u.S.E. )
It depends if you want to do a static transformation and have Apache serve
the resulting HTML from disk in the normal way, or have the transformation
done in real time afresh every time the document changes (ie static docs or
fast-changing docs), or if the XML document is itself dynamically generated
(eg from a database or data stream or feed).
For traditional text documents (slow changing, if ever), I use Saxon. With
one or two trivially small exceptions it has been massively reliable.
I have tried AxKit (freebie for Perl and Apache) and I got it to work once,
but the authors don't have access to recent versions of operating systems,
so I haven't been able to get it running under RH9 or FC3 yet. Maybe it
works with SuSE. It's a small, light, realtime XML-XSLT server driver.
For dynamic configurations I prefer Cocoon, but there are performance
limitations (like most Java server applications, Cocoon with Tomcat
tends to spawn processes like tadpoles on a warm summer morning, and
some of them are persistent little buggers).
For higher performance, you may want to look at a commercial solution
like PropelX (
www.propylon.com) or Omnimark (
www.stilo.com), or at
writing some C or Java or JSP or ASP or whatever scripting solution
you prefer.
///Peter
[Claimer: I have a business relationship with Propylon]
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"The cat in the box is both a wave and a particle"
-- Terry Pratchett, introducing quantum physics in _The Authentic Cat_
