XML and PHP

PHP and XSLT

Although there is nothing to stop you from creating an XML document and a corresponding XSLT stylesheet, you typically need to rely on a third-party XSLT processor (such as Sablotron) to combine the two. Web browsers today have limited XML parsing capabilities, and even less support for XSLT stylesheet processing; this implies that an intermediary layer, such as PHP, is required to perform the task of formatting XML data per XSLT-specified template rules.

PHP 4.0.6 (and later) comes with an XSLT extension designed specifically to provide a consistent interface to different XSLT processors (Sablotron, Xalan, and so on). Created by Sterling Hughes, this XSLT extension works much like an abstraction layer, exposing a generic API that ...