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Compiling support for XSLT in PHP

Submitted by sandip on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 22:49

XSLT, Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformations is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. It is a standard defined by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Information about XSLT and related technologies can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.

PHP XSLT extension only supports the Sablotron library from the Ginger Alliance. The extension does not come standard with Redhat Enterprise... and the compilation was a bit tricky. So if you are having difficulty, theses notes may help you some...

The versions I used as of this writing are:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
  • php-4.3.9-3.9
  • sablotron-1.0.2-1.rf
  • js-1.5-1.2.el4.rf

Note: If you need xslt support with PHP 5 you can use the XSL extension.

 OK, lets get started:

  1. Get and install the latest js and js-devel RPMs from dags repository.
    # rpm -Uvh dag.wieers.com/packages/js/js-devel-1.5-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm 
    
# rpm -Uvh dag.wieers.com/packages/js/js-1.5-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
  2. Download Sablotron source RPM from dags repository. 
    $ wget dag.wieers.com/packages/sablotron/sablotron-1.0.2-1.rf.src.rpm
  3. Install the sablotron source RPM and remove "--with-readline" from the spec file.
    $ rpm -ivh dag.wieers.com/packages/sablotron/sablotron-1.0.2-1.rf.src.rpm 
    $ vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/sablotron.spec 
    
 
    
 [ begin remove ]
    
           --with-readline  \
    
 [ end remove ]
  4. Build and install sablotron and sablotron-devel packages.
    $ rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/sablotron.spec
    # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/sablotron*.rpm
  5. Download the php source RPM from Redhat.
    $ wget ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/php-4.3.9-3.9.src.rpm
  6. Install the php source RPM and add, "--enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot --with-sablot-js=%{_prefix}" to the spec file.
     $ rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/php-4.3.9-3.9.src.rpm 
     $ vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/php.spec 
    
 
    
 [ begin add ]
    
           --enable-xslt \
    
           --with-xslt-sablot  \
    
           --with-sablot-js=%{_prefix}   \
    
 [ end add ]
  7. Optionally add "BuildRequires: sablotron-devel, js-devel" to the spec file, helpful in stopping a build early if something is missing.
     [ begin add ]
    
 BuildRequires: sablotron-devel, js-devel  
    
 [ end add ]
  8. On running rpmbuild, you may notice some additional missing dependencies.
  9. Install the missing packages. Most of what I had to install was devel packages.
    # up2date -i [missing-packages]
  10. Build and force install the php packages.
     $ rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/php.spec 
    # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/php* --force
  11. Restart apache.
    # service httpd restart
  12. Test with "<? phpinfo(); ?>". It should list XSLT support as being enabled.
  13. Edit the up2date config to skip future php updates.
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Thanks!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:30.

Thanks for the sablotron compile tip! Removing the readline support the build proccess runs correctly!

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google result

Submitted by sandip on Fri, 03/10/2006 - 23:32.

I noticed this blog coming up as the number 1 result on google with the keyword: "xslt php rpm" on google and it's not even been a month since the blog was posted... If you are looking for info or having difficulty, please don't hesitate to post here.

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After spending three days

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/10/2007 - 03:30.

After spending three days searching for a way to make XSLT work on RHEL4 PHP4.3.9 sandip simple instructions fixed everything! Large learning cure this linux thing is but keep you young.

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