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>Nowdays, most of the browsers on the market <SPAN
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files and are not able to correctly apply xslt stylesheets.</P
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>Even worse, some browsers are not standard complaiant and do not follow the 
specifications closely, leading to a world where xml can
hardly be used in web applications.</P
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>mod-xslt2 is a server side module able to transform
``xml'' documents in ``html'' (or to any other format) before they even 
get back to the browser.</P
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>At time of writing, this module can be used with apache 1.3.x (stable) and 
apache 2.0.x (testing), but other web servers may get supported in the future.</P
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>mod-xslt2 main features include:

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>the ability to parse generated xml (ability to parse the output of php or perl scripts).</P
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>the ability to use the ``xslt'' indicated by the &lt;?xml-stylesheet processing
instruction.</P
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>the ability to send back the xml file unparsed to the browser.</P
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>the ability to fetch xslt or DTDs from scripts rather than from static
files.</P
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>the ability to fetch a different xslt depending on the content of the
request headers, of the get parameters or the web server environment.</P
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>the ability to allow xslt stylesheets to make use of these variables to
generate output.</P
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This module is almost a complete rewrite of the original ``mod-xslt'' 
written by Philipp Dunkel, containing many improvements, a more generic 
API, a whole set of new and flexible features and the correction of some 
bugs that were found in the original sources.</P
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As an effect of a more generic API, this version of mod-xslt2 supports 
both apache 1 and apache 2, while work is under way to provide a cgi and 
proxy wrapper to allow mod-xslt2 to be used on any other server.</P
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>The more generic API should also be usable to provide support for servers
like IIS or others, even if I'm personally not going to write code for 
closed source products.</P
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>The build system has also been completely rewritten and a whole set of new 
documentation included in the original package.</P
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may find in this (or any other) document provided with mod-xslt2.</P
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