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Transforming XML with PHP

by Bruno Pedro – This article compares two methods of transforming XML in PHP: PEAR’s XML_Transformer package and the W3C XML transformation language XSLT. I will first describe the PEAR project and its philosophy, with a focus on its XML transformation techniques. I will then give a brief introduct

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CSS 3 Selectors

by Russell Dyer – Although the promise of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has been wondrous, the progress has been wanting. As with all W3C standards, there is the lengthy discussion process conducted by the related working group, then the problem of implementation by web browser vendors, and finally t

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Shortening XSLT Stylesheets

by Manfred Knobloch – XSLT is often considered to be too verbose. As stylesheet code grows, it tends to be unreadable. This is not a fate stylesheet authors have to accept. There are some strategies to keep your XSLT code short. This article proposes some ways of shorten stylesheets without loss of