XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc — Transform to a DOMDocument

Description

public XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc(object $document, ?string $returnClass = null): DOMDocument|false

Transforms 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!

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