XSLT & hello

[Denis F. Latypoff]

Hello Maxim,

Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 5:37:34 PM, you wrote:

> Hello!

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:02:47AM +0100, Chris Farmiloe wrote:

>>Hi, I've recently been thinking about simplifying my future web
>>applications by making the back ends only speak XML .... and using XSL
>>to present the information in browsers.
>>
>>Although the browser world appears to be ready now for client-side
>>XSLT, I'm not sure the search-engines are... as a result I think I
>>must still perform server side XSLT.
>>
>>I'm considering building an nginx module that could perform the
>>transformations, but not having any experience writing modules for
>>nginx, I thought I'd ask if this is wise? or maybe something like this
>>would be better suited being proxied to a separate HTTP service?
>>
>>any thoughts would be appreciated?

> I'm planning to implement nginx XSLT module for a while, and 
> studied the problem in detail.

> The main problem with XSLT is that in general you can't transform 
> XML document unless it's fully parsed, and thus nginx will be 
> forced to buffer entire backend answer before transforming.  This 
> will have obvious memory implications.

> So, if you already have your XML parsed somewhere in you app - it 
> would be more efficient to transform it there.

+1, see mod-xslt2 for apache.

> Maxim Dounin



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