Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007

XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc

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XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc — Transform to a DOMDocument

Description

XSLTProcessor

DOMDocument transformToDoc ( DOMNode $doc )

Transforms the source node to a DOMDocument applying the stylesheet given by the XSLTProcessor::importStylesheet method.

Parameters

doc: The node to be transformed.

Return Values

The resulting DOMDocument or FALSE on error.

Examples

Example#1 Transforming to a DOMDocument


<?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 trim($proc->transformToDoc($xml)->firstChild->wholeText);

?>

The above example will output:

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


In most cases if you expect XML (or XHTML) as output you better use transformToXML() directly. You gain better control over xsl:output attributes, notably omit-xml-declaration.



Instead of :

$proc = new XSLTProcessor();

$proc->importStylesheet($xsl);

$dom = $proc->transformToDoc($xml);

echo $dom->saveXML();



do use : 

$proc = new XSLTProcessor();

$proc->importStylesheet($xsl);

$newXml = $proc->transformToXML($xml);

echo $newXml;



In the first case, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> is added whatever you set the omit-xml-declaration while transformToXML() take the attribute into account.

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