Processing XSLT with PHP

mike — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:04:44 +0000

Processing XSLT client-side isn’t for everyone, not all browsers support it, and out of those that do, there are a few that still don’t do it well.

Of course you have the option of Saxon or various Apache modules, but what if you want a little more control, from within your web application? Easy, PHP has an XSLT Processor “built in”.

Quick Example;





$dom = new DomDocument();


$dom->load( 'test.xml' );


$xslt = new XSLTProcessor(); 


$XSL = new DOMDocument(); 


$XSL->load( 'xslt/layout.xsl', LIBXML_NOCDATA); 


$xslt->importStylesheet( $XSL ); 


print $xslt->transformToXML( $dom );


?>

It’s as easy as that.

Mike Hughes.

Web Design London - Energy House Digital » XML

Processing XSLT with PHP