Content with Style - Comments on Zend Framework: XSL and self-serializing Views

Content with Style - Comment #1 on Zend Framework: XSL and self-serializing Views

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:33:13 +0000

Thanks a lot! I will try that soon since I'm heading to try this Zend framework and I'm kind of XSL lover... :)

Content with Style - Comment #2 on Zend Framework: XSL and self-serializing Views

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:15:58 +0000

Oscar, it's up to you whether or not you want to head into that direction. Of course there are downsides as well, which shouldn't go unmentioned: You're going to loose access to Form decorators and various other helpers. Plus, it's not the most ZEND way of doing things, so you might loose maintainability if someone else used to ZF will have to work on it.

Content with Style - Comment #3 on Zend Framework: XSL and self-serializing Views

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:48:32 +0000

What about xsl tranformed by the client ? I can't find a way to do that since the client has to get the xsl file after it gets the xml.

Content with Style - Comment #4 on Zend Framework: XSL and self-serializing Views

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:12:56 +0000

Hi Pascal,

I've just started to investigate the possibilities for the framework to implement xsl at rendering. I've worked with java and the spring framework and a kind of cascading xsl transformation. The controller fills a collection object with the various objects and reference data (as i18n language labels), which will be transformed to a kind of standard xml layout. Finally, this result is transformed to the final xhtml using common html transformation. I've tried CodeIgnitor, but I didn't manage to use the pear library, which has the XML/Serializer.php class. (also the XML/Unserializer.php class exists). I will try your demo, but also will try to extend the concept and maybe use caching for speed up.
If you have worked out some more examples, I will be interrested.

Just for NicKy, you can just add a reference to the xsl file like:

Content with Style - Comment #5 on Zend Framework: XSL and self-serializing Views

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:21:08 +0000

Hello, I haven't go any experiences with the PEAR library for object serialization. Let me just say this: The above demo is more meant to be a proof of concept, rather than a proper library suggestion. As far as I can tell, using XSLT will make a lot of things really hard in Zend, as you'll loose the ability to utilize built in things like View helpers and so on.

I can see why, coming from something like a Spring Framework or C# background, you'd feel familiar with XSLT, but I also believe it's a "non-Zendy" way of doing things, if that makes sense.