PHP Manual: Transform to URI

Description

public int XSLTProcessor::transformToUri(object $document, string $uri)

Transforms the source node to an URI applying the stylesheet given by the XSLTProcessor::importStylesheet method.

Parameters

document: The Dom\Document, DOMDocument, SimpleXMLElement or libxml-compatible object to be transformed.
uri: The target URI for the transformation.

Errors/Exceptions

The following errors are possible when using an expression that invokes PHP callbacks.

Throws an Error if a PHP callback is invoked but there were no callbacks registered, or if the named callback was not registered.
Throws a TypeError if the php:function syntax is used and the handler name is not a string.
Throws an Error if a non-DOM object was returned from a callback.

Return Values

Returns the number of bytes written or false if an error occurred.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.4.0	Now throws an Error if the callback cannot be invoked, instead of emitting a warning.
8.4.0	Added support for Dom\Document.

Examples

Example #1 Transforming to a HTML file

<?php

// Load the XML source
$xml = new DOMDocument;
$xml->load('collection.xml');

$xsl = new DOMDocument;
$xsl->load('collection.xsl');

// Configure the transformer
$proc = new XSLTProcessor;
$proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules

$proc->transformToURI($xml, 'file:///tmp/out.html');

?>

Example #2 Transforming to a HTML file using Dom\Document

<?php

$xml = Dom\XMLDocument::createFromFile('collection.xml');
$xsl = Dom\XMLDocument::createFromFile('collection.xsl');

// Configure the transformer
$proc = new XSLTProcessor;
$proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules

$proc->transformToURI($xml, 'file:///tmp/out.html');

?>

XSLTProcessor::transformToUri