XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc — Transform to a DOMDocument
Description
$document
, ?string $returnClass
= null
): DOMDocument|falseTransforms the source node to a DOMDocument applying the stylesheet given by the XSLTProcessor::importStylesheet() method.
Parameters
-
document
-
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!
See Also
- XSLTProcessor::transformToUri() - Transform to URI
- XSLTProcessor::transformToXml() - Transform to XML