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We help you create dynamic XML files, we provide you reusable taglibs to avoid rewriting similar code multiple times, wr provide various levels of caching and many more. Please se more details at : http://www.interakt.ro/products/ Alexandru > Let me preface this by saying that I know the benefits of using > XML with regards to portability and extensibility. > Here is the issue I face. I have all of my data stored in a MySQL > database. I'm considering reworking my website so that it uses > XML (after being converted from resultant records in my DB) to > transmit & XSLT to transform and display the data to my end user. > There are a few benifits I can see in sending XML messages as > part of the back end processing. However, that seems to be out- > weighed by the amount of processing that's going to need to take > place in actually serving the data to the user. > First I have to query and pull the records from the database. Then, > I need to send those records to a function (or functions) to convert > it to XML. Then, I need to take that XML data and have PHP use > an XSL stylesheet to transform it to HTML before it, finally, gets > sent on to the browser. So that's basically 2 conversions that take > place on the back end. > How much experience have any of you had with doing that? Does > it take significantly longer to serve the pages; is there a noticible > performance hit? Do you realize more benifit for the back end > processes when using XML that makes any additional time it takes > to display a page to the user worth it? > I'd love to hear about people's experience with this kind of thing so I > can better make a decision wrt whether or not I should even go down > this route. > > thnx, > Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
