Using XSLT and FastCGI together

[Michael Nachbaur]

On an Ubuntu VMWare image on my MacBook Pro, nginx+xslt was able to  
perform at about 1200 r/s according to ab, with a concurrency of 500  
IIRC.  I couldn't believe how fast it is.  In the production  
environment that I'm developing for now, we're doing SSL so the r/s  
drops significantly due to that.  But still, libxslt and libxml2 are  
really fast, since nginx pre-loads the stylesheets at startup.

On 15-Apr-09, at 10:30 AM, Michael Shadle wrote:

> this would be a neat feature and i could possibly leverage it too,
> depending on how fast nginx's xsl transforms work. i assume pretty
> fast. :)
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael Nachbaur  
> <mike at nachbaur.com> wrote:
>> I'm developing a web application that makes heavy use of nginx's XSLT
>> support (Thank you for that!)  About half of the content is in  
>> static XML
>> files that describes the application's state.  But when people  
>> click on and
>> interact with the forms and links on the page, those make calls to  
>> URLs
>> which get dispatched to fastcgi daemons using fastcgi_pass.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is output XML from my FastCGI daemon and feed  
>> that
>> through nginx's XSLT stylesheets in order to render the
>> dynamically-generated page.  But I'm finding that even though my
>> fastcgi_pass directive lives in the same location block where my  
>> xslt is
>> defined, nginx is sending the raw XML to the browser.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell nginx to process the output of my FastCGI  
>> script with
>> XSLT?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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