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<h1 class="refname">XSLTProcessor::transformToXML</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">XSLTProcessor::transformToXML</span> — <span class="dc-title">Transform to XML</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span>
<span class="methodname"><strong>XSLTProcessor::transformToXML</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="class.domdocument.html" class="type DOMDocument">DOMDocument</a></span> <code class="parameter">$doc</code></span>
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Transforms the source node to a string applying the stylesheet given by
the <span class="function"><a href="xsltprocessor.importstylesheet.html" class="function">xsltprocessor::importStylesheet()</a></span> method.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-xsltprocessor.transformtoxml-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">doc</code></em></span>
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The transformed document.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-xsltprocessor.transformtoxml-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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The result of the transformation as a string or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on error.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-xsltprocessor.transformtoxml-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 Transforming to a string</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Load the XML source<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMDocument</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">load</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'collection.xml'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xsl </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMDocument</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xsl</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">load</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'collection.xsl'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Configure the transformer<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$proc </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">XSLTProcessor</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$proc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">importStyleSheet</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xsl</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// attach the xsl rules<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$proc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">transformToXML</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
Hey! Welcome to Nicolas Eliaszewicz's sweet CD collection!
<h1>Fight for your mind</h1><h2>by Ben Harper - 1995</h2><hr>
<h1>Electric Ladyland</h1><h2>by Jimi Hendrix - 1997</h2><hr>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-xsltprocessor.transformtoxml-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="xsltprocessor.transformtodoc.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc()</a> - Transform to a DOMDocument</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="xsltprocessor.transformtouri.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">XSLTProcessor::transformToUri()</a> - Transform to URI</span></li>
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