Summary How to transform xml documents using Sablotron and PHP

PHP's XSLT extension is no longer experimental as of version 4.1.0. Here is how to do a simple transformation and output it to the browser.

The process of transforming requires three steps

• Create the xslt processor with xslt_create();
• Process the xml and xsl files with the xslt_process() command
• Free the processor with xslt_free()

Here is the syntax of the xslt_process function

mixed xslt_process (resource xh, string xml, string xsl [, string result [, array arguments [, array parameters]]])

There is quite a bit of flexablilty in xslt_process you can load your xml or xsl from a file or a string and output to a file or string. You also pass parameters via xslt_process().

You can find out more about Sablotron at http://www.gingerall.com/
And PHP's xslt functions at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php

Additional information

<?php // Create An XSLT Processor $xslt_processor = xslt_create(); // Perform the transformation, // if successful echo the contents of the transformed file to the browser $result = xslt_process($xslt_processor, 'input.xml', 'input.xsl', NULL); if ($result) { echo $result; } // If the transformation is not successful output the error msg else { echo "The transformation was not successful, the error message is ". xslt_error($xslt_processor) . " and the error code is " . xslt_errno($xslt_processor); } // Free the resources used by the processor xslt_free($xslt_processor); ?>