> > that might not be flexible enough in practice (but is > > still better than what we have currently!). > > Would it work to do templating in XSLT? I mean, it's possible to do a lot of > XSLT templates of the DocBook XML, and switching in another XSLT-sheet would > allow for a very different layout (combined with the CSS sheet). > > I don't know if that would work, but it might (of course, you'd need to have > the XSLT module installed, but it'll be default from 5.0 onwards anyway).
Livedocs need to work on all mirror sites from the XML sources of the documentation so the PHP 5 bundled libxml2 is not an option... Also there is a lot of work put into the transformation and indexing of the XML in PHP since we don't need the flexibility and power (and complexity) of XSLT. Goba
