Saxon

Legacy ID: #4187387 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

I would recommend that to do this kind of integration, you should consider using the Java API to run queries rather than using the command line. This opens up a wide variety of possibilities for how the input is passed to Saxon: it could be as a string of lexical XML (wrapped inside a StringReader inside a StreamSource), or as a SAX stream, or a tree in a variety of formats: DOM, JDOM, XOM or Saxon's own TinyTree format. Using the Java API rather than the command line gives a big performance advantage because you aren't loading the Java VM from scratch each time you run a query. However, if you really do want to use the command line, you can use "-s -" to take input from standard input.

Legacy ID: #4188291 Legacy Poster: veronica ced (veronica_ced)

Hi, thanks for your answer. So far, I've been using Saxon through command-line because the application I develop is written in PHP. Is there a way I could invoke the Java API from PHP? Thanks, Veronica

Legacy ID: #4188419 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

There's a bridge available: http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/ but I've no idea how good it is. The other approach is to run your transformations in a Java servlet and send the requests and responses using HTTP - a little web service. A bit more complex to set up, but likely to give vastly better performance than issuing an exec() on the command line, I would think, especially if you can cache the compiled stylesheets or queries.

Legacy ID: #4385665 Legacy Poster: holtkamp (holtkamper)

The PHP-Java bridge solution works quite well for this purpose.