On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:59:38AM +0200, paul POULAIN said:
MJ Ray wrote:
Finally, using xml display technologies: xml, xslt, etc. A nightmare IMO. Don't even go there with koha. I've been there before and am not keen to go back. Full XSLT is apparently turing-complete and it seems really dangerous not being able to tell a template from an infinite loop. If people really want to do this, let them use XML output from koha and reformat it.
iirc, chris suggested a Perl XSLT engine when we had to choose our tools for 2.0.0 He thought it was a "heavy idea", so was not very enthousiastic. I tried to install the tool, but never succeded. The conclusion was : - it's a complex solution for developpers - it's a nightmare solution for users => it's not our solution :-)
Yeah, We expiremented with Axkit, and while impressive, it did cause a significant performance hit. And did tie us to mod_perl and Apache. Where html::template (which of course the templates dont have to be html .. they can be anything you like (including XML)) provided a more portable solution. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz