| How to make Saxon/C v1.1.0 into a PHP extension for PHP 5.6.13 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 |
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Monday, January 29th, 2018 23:10:10 GMT |
Today I found out Saxon/C v1.1.0 was released Sept. 27, 2017.
In it, "APIs are available to run XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.1, XPath 3.1 and Schema Validation from C/C++ or PHP applications."
I made those scripts because I found I can't use Schematron unless I use Saxon/C v1.0.2, or one of the commercial editions of Saxon/C v1.1.0.)
So, for most of the details, see my previous blog post:
After that, all I had to do was follow the rest of my previous blog post's instructions!
Here's an article about various exciting new improvements in XSLT 3.0:
(Feb. 14, 2017, from XML.com)
The ability to easily convert between JSON and XML, making it possible to transform JSON using XSLT, is so exciting that even I (who am often reluctant to switch to newer versions of software) was happy to upgrade to Saxon/C v1.1.0.
(Addition, Feb. 17, 2018, 9:32 PM EST. I made some Bash scripts which make it easy to switch between the Saxon/C v1.0.2 PHP module and Saxon/C v1.1.0 PHP module:
Fortunately, the process of making Saxon/C v1.1.0 into a PHP extension was almost the same as it was for Saxon/C v1.0.2.
The 2 differences were:
./configure --enable-saxon and editing the Makefile the way my previous blog post describes, I edited the Makefile a bit more, just to replace all instances of the text "php7" with "php5".
I should note that I accomplished this while running Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004 in a VirtualBox, and I haven't yet tried it in a non-virtual system. But I'm guessing it will work in a non-virtual system too.