Is XSLT support not available in Windows Installation Binaries?

jaseyx

Hi there,

I am trying to use XML and XSLT on a windows machine (Win 2000) that has PHP 4.2.2 and IIS 5.0 installed. I've found that the Windows Binary Installation for PHP 4.2.2 has some XML parsing capabilities precompiled (xml_parser_create() and other xml functions work), but as soon as I get to the xslt_process part, this doesn't seem to be in the binary installation file.

Is this correct (and do I need the PHP source code to manually compile PHP with the desired xslt support), or is there a solution to this problem (change a few php.ini parameters, install a few dlls etc.)?

Thanks!

Jason

aldur

I have the same problem jason thoug I have a solution I havn't been able to get it to work yet.

you need to download Sablotron and expat you can get them from http://www.gingerall.com

you also need libxml2,libxslt and iconv

though if I find the solution I will post back here

if you get it working can you post me too.

thanks

jaseyx

Thankx Aldur,

When checking the phpionfo I can see expat XML support is available (in basic PHP installation). XSLT is not mentioned in phpinfo (so probably no support is available for XSLT in the basic windows binary installation file). I tried downloading Expat and Sablotron before. Expat installed just fine (though I didn't check if phpinfo returned a newer Expat version), but Sablotron has some kind of mumbo jumbo binary installation file for windows that does nothing more than extract Sablotron related files in a directory of your choice. I didn't find any PHP integration (no sablotron XSLT version number in phpinfo; no instructions on how to get sablotron to work with PHP) so I gave it up....

Hope you have better luck (maybe if you can explain how to get Sablotron to work we can make some progress....)

Regards,
Jason

jaseyx

Aldur,

It's even worse. After installing the new windows Expat Binary (1.95.5) phpinfo still says it uses Expat 1.95.2... Any idea how to get Expat and Sablotron integrated in PHP without recompiling?

Regards,
Jason

aldur

check to see how many copies of the files you have
IE you should only have one of the dlls on your machine then it can only find the one 🙂

aldur

the problem was that in the php.ini there is an extension called php_xslt.dll you need to load it as well as the php_domxml.dll

including having the extra files downloaded.

I didn't think about the problem for a few days and wham it popped into my head

hope this works for you.

Aldur 🙂