The web site I work on publishes news five days a week, usually between 5 - 15 different entries a day. For this reason, I use PHP and MySQL to dynamically display our news.
Currently, the program queries the database for selected data, wraps that data in some html, grabs a template, and then displays the page in html.
I would like to do the same thing in WML, so I could display some of our news on wireless devices. Which I know I can do simple enough.
So I've been reading up on XML and XSL lately, and I've got a firm handle on it. But can it help me?
1) I'm not actually sharing this information with any outside source and the data is imported into the database via an admin script, so I have no reason to import xml files into the database. So, does it have any use for me?
2) Even if it was affective, would it be worth it to figure out a way to create dynamic xml files so my PHP scripts can parse them? Isn't it better to cut off the middle man, and query the database directly and build the html and the wml respectfully?
Thanks for any help and suggestions.
