Convert code is designed to apply an arbitrary XSL over any XML from the local server (or remote server via a Proxy or [[Apache_Remote_Simple?]].

Unlike most XSL conversions, this one is designed to be controlled by the developer/web designer.

Some examples...

/MyApplication/SomeData.xml

To represent your XML data to the user as RSS

/z/convert/mydata2rss/MyApplication/SomeData.xml

Note: you can use the prefix versions as well, using mod_rewrite. You can also even do automatic conversions based on all sorts of rules.For example based on Extension (rss = rss2html, atom = atom2html, svg = svg2png and more); or time of day, keep your mind open.

/MyApplication/SomeData.xml?zaltana_convert=mydata2rss
/view/MyApplication/SomeData.xml

The XSL itself is just stored in a URL. Note that although it is normally just uploaded and managed directly as a file on disk, this is not a limitation. If you choose to generate the XSL from a database, or store it in Subversion - this is all valid methods.

See Apache Subproc

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