TalkPHP - View Single Post - Generating XML from a Mysql DB with PHP's DOM functions (part Two)

Salathe · 12-05-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Karl

Wow, I remember touching on this stuff about a year or so ago, but then I heard it couldn't be used with IE and just forgot all about it. I'm going to have to do some learning because that stuff looks amazing. Why aren't more people using this technique?

With PHP, all of the transformation is going on server-side with the resulting output being whatever you like, including perfectly normal XHTML.

Transforming documents like this does result in a fair hit on the server (at least, it did a while back when I was experimenting). Couple that with yet another layer of abstraction and it's not ideal of every situation. But it's up to you to decide when it would be good to use these techniques and when it wouldn't.