> XSLT was still a performance improvement over DSSSL though, right? > > Maybe XSLT as a way to do everything LiveDocs need is not the way to go, but > it may prove useful to use XSLT as a very flexible layout engine over some > sort of pre-processed DocBook XML (pre-processed by the LiveDocs indexer, > that is). That way, you still have a standard way of doing the layout > (XSLT), and the benefits of the fast indexing.
We already use XSLT in the preprocessing stage to build up the TOC (which would be much harder without XSLT). But since we need to make livedocs work in a lot of different environments, we will not make PHP's XSLT capabilities a requirement... If you have followed the discussions so far, you have already seen a lot of examples of environments where livedocs will be used... Also we would probaby need the level of XSLT support included in PHP 5 to make the transformations work, and let livedocs plug into the process. Since we are not in a position to require the XSLT extension for PHP 4, you guess we are absolutely not keen on requiring PHP 5. Goba
