I have been trying to figure out the support of xml/xslt and soap in CMS but couldn’t find much besides low layer support by php itself.
This is my requirement:
1. The end user submits form data through web browser;
2. My server side program validates the form data;
3. converts the form data to XML;
4. transform the XML using XSLT file read from a database;
5. package the output XML into SOAP message and send to the SOAP server;
6. when getting the response, the data has to pass the same process in reverse order.
As far as I know, I have to implement my requirements in the following steps:
for step 3, I have to create a XML DOM processor, convert my form data into XML, one element at a time, and write it to a file;
for step 4, I need to
* read the file and
* parse it to a DOM object (I may not need to manually do this but XML string has to be parsed anyways, so from performance perspective they are the same)
* run XSLT
* render the output to a string
for step 5, I need to
* take the output string from step 4
* parse it
* assign the XML nodes to php variables
* call php SOAP to send the message.
The above sounds like a lot of redundant steps which will cause performance problem. Is there a way in php to neatly handle xslt/soap or I have to switch to Java? Is there any CMS that provides module/plugin with xslt/soap features? (Besides, some of the SOAP-php packages seem outdated)
This probably sounds a question not specific for Modx but I’ve been reading multiple forums and been impressed by the technical knowledge people have in this forum.
Thanks in advance!
