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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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This PHP extension provides a processor independent API to XSLT
transformations. Currently this extension only supports the Sablotron
library from the Ginger Alliance. Support is planned for other
libraries, such as the Xalan library or the libxslt library.
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XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformations) is a
language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents.
It is a standard defined by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Information about XSLT and related technologies can be
found at <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt" class="link external">» http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt</a>.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This extension is different than the sablotron extension distributed with
versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.1.0, currently only the new XSLT extension in
PHP 4.1.0 is supported. If you need support for the old extension, please ask
your questions on the PHP mailing lists.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This extension has been moved to the
<a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with
PHP as of PHP 5.0.0.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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If you need xslt support with PHP 5 you can use the
<a href="book.xsl.html" class="link">XSL</a> extension.
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