XSLT 2.0 PHP support. When?

Question

What are the chances to see XSLT 2.0 processors like saxon for php in the nearest future?

Answer 1

In the nearest future? None.

PHP5 relies exclusively on LibXSLT for XSLT processing (Sablotron is out), and there is no plan to support XSLT 2.0 in this library.

Answer 2

This isn't entirely true.

If you are running PHP on the Windows platform, then there is a relatively easy to configure extension to the AltovaXML XSLT 2.0 processor... http://sourceforge.net/projects/xslt2processor/

If you are running PHP on Linux, then you will need to install a PHP/Java Bridge. This involves running a Java servlet contained like Apache/Tomcat, and is pretty involved. There is also some relatively complex hybrid java/php code necessary to make this work. If you are interested, I can post more details.