Enabling XSLT on Windows Vista Server

jarthur · August 18th, 2009, 01:43 PM

Does anyone have a place where I can get instructions for enabling/installing XSLT on Windows Vista?

I have PHP 5.2.10 up and running with no problem.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jarthur

Martin Honnen · August 18th, 2009, 01:56 PM

Well Vista should have MSXML 3 and MSXML 6 , both supporting XSLT and XPath 1.0. So there is no need to install anything. If you want to use with with PHP then I think you can do e.g.

Code:

$doc = new COM("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");

but I have never done that.
PHP 5 also comes with libxslt as its XSLT 1.0 processor, not sure whether that is installed by default or you need to enable it as an extension. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/xsl.installation.php for details.

Vista also has .NET 3.0 as far as I know, so you can run .NET application using System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform which also support XSLT 1.0. I am not sure you could use that with PHP however.

If you want to use XSLT 2.0 then on Windows you can install Saxon 9 or AltovaXML tools, I am not sure which is better accessable from PHP.