Posted by Michael Ruebner on 11/23/05 17:12

WhatsPHP:

> I guess you will have problems if the client browser does not accept
> javascripts and have them turned off..

Well, that's why I want to handle this server-side. I already use
Javascript to provide/change some _non_ vital information via DOM on the
client's side; this is actually where my initial idea came from.

Right now, I am dealing with a CMS that requires a lot of data structure
mangling and chopping. Form control 'label', 'class', and 'value'
attributes need to be changed according to view, involving a lot of
processing overhead for even minor changes. It would be nice to have a
complete default (document) tree somewhere in memory that could be
manipulated using some kind of DOM API.

Apparently, there are already a couple of tools out there that can do the
job in PHP (XML and DOM functions, Sablotron for XSLT processing).
However, I cannot seem to find a comprehensive development framework and,
most important, feedback from the trenches...

Bests,

Mike

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