XML Transformer

This is my post about XML transformer. A PEAR extension that could work just great (apparently) in creating custom PHP tags. Here in this post I'll discuss my greviances in trying to deploy this.

Firstly, I wanted to install this. There was a catch here. I didn't want to do a normal PEAR installation, because it looked rather cumbersome and I wasn't in a mood to try out all the commands. So I copied the files and placed it in a new folder called XML. (This is only for XML_Transfermer though). The heirarchy was something like:

XML
- transformer.php
- util.php
/ transformer
/ and all other XML folders.

Now all I had to do was:

set_include_path('.'.PATH_SEPARATOR.'../'.PATH_SEPARATOR.'/AppServ/www/tmp/lib');
?>

This would set an additional include path to /lib which contained /XML. So far so god. I took nearly an hour to figure this out.

Now I was stuck with a mega huge problem of 'how the hell do I get this to work'. There is so little documentation available about XML_Transformer on the internet that its really bad. So I have decided to create a documentation of XML_transformer once I actually understand how to get it to work...