XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc — Transform to a DOMDocument

Description

DOMDocument XSLTProcessor::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!

User Contributed Notes

franp at free dot fr

9 years ago


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.