PHP Manual: Transform to XML

Description

public stringnullfalse XSLTProcessor::transformToXml(object $document)

Transforms the source node to a string applying the stylesheet given by the xsltprocessor::importStylesheet method.

Parameters

document: The Dom\Document, DOMDocument, SimpleXMLElement or libxml-compatible object to be transformed.
returnClass: This optional parameter may be used so that XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc will return an object of the specified class. That class should either extend or be the same class as document's class.

Return Values

The result of the transformation as a string or false on error.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.4.0	Added support for Dom\Document.

Examples

Example #1 Transforming to a string

<?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

echo $proc->transformToXML($xml);

?>

The above example will output:

Hey! Welcome to Nicolas Eliaszewicz's sweet CD collection!

<h1>Fight for your mind</h1><h2>by Ben Harper - 1995</h2><hr>
<h1>Electric Ladyland</h1><h2>by Jimi Hendrix - 1997</h2><hr>

Example #2 Transforming to a string 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

echo $proc->transformToXML($xml);

?>