RE: [thelist] Server-Side XSLT on Apache

Joel writes:
> Say I want server-side XSLT transformations so my users can
> get old-school
> XHTML. My hosting company only runs a UNIX Apache server with
> CGI support. No
> java, no PHP, nothing like that. Is there something out there
> that can do that for me that I can set up myself?

While there are certainly command line XSL processors that one could call in
a CGI script, one has to ask, "How much does my data change?"  You are only
going to serve up XHTML but how are you going to vary it?  In other words,
why do a server side transform if the pages are fairly static?  If all of
your pages are static, why not just keep your content locally on your
development machine in one directory and transform the content files into
another directory?  This would let you test the site locally and then you
could publish that directory when satisfied.  You could also get clever and
only publish the pages that change.


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