Symphony CMS “No suitable XSLT processor was found” under Ubuntu

Posted on June 28, 2010

I came across this and there were no Google matches, which I thought was strange.

So if you’ve installed Symphony CMS under Ubuntu (I have 10.04, Lucid Lynx) and get the message “no suitable XSLT processor was found”, it means that you need to install the package “php5-xsl”.

I like GUIs so I used Synaptic, but I’m sure you could also do something like “sudo apt-get install php5-xsl”.

Then restart Apache with “sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload” to load the XSLT module.

Symphony

Posted on June 24, 2010

It’s been a long time between posts, mainly because I’ve been so busy. Lately I’ve been working with Symphony CMS. Which means I’ve been writing templates using XSLT, which I think is excellent for writing templates. My XML skills have really advanced over the last 6 months. Using XSLT you can transform one bit of XML into another bit of XML. And because XHTML is XML, it means that I can transfer the XML data output from my Symphony data sources to XHTML.

The documentation that does exist for Symphony is quite good, but there seems to be a lot that simply isn’t there. Hopefully that will improve in the future.

I’ve already used Symphony on a couple of projects. It’s a CMS that looks after the developer as much as (perhaps more than) the content author. The learning curve for the developer is pretty steep but once I got over it, it’s been very smooth sailing. If it’s possible to sail down a curve.