(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
XSLTProcessor::transformToUri — Transform to URI
Transforms the source node to an URI applying the stylesheet given by the XSLTProcessor::importStylesheet() method.
documentThe DOMDocument or SimpleXMLElement object to be transformed.
uriThe target URI for the transformation.
Returns the number of bytes written or false if an error occurred.
Example #1 Transforming to a HTML file
<?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
$proc->transformToURI($xml, 'file:///tmp/out.html');
?>
Sometimes you don't want to transform to a file, an XML string (because you're using text or html), or a DOMDocument.
To transform to standard output, you can use php://output
<?php
$proc->transformToURI($xml, 'php://output');
?>
To transform to a string (of HTML or text, instead of XML), you can use the above in conjunction with output buffering.
<?php
ob_start();
$proc->transformToURI($xml, 'php://output');
$outputString = ob_get_flush();
?>