XML and PHP

A Few Examples

Now that you understand the theory, let’s look at a few examples that put it all in context. This section illustrates some common examples of XSLT usage, including using it to generate documents in multiple formats and transforming a dynamically generated XML document.

Transforming a Dynamically Generated XML Document

The standard transformation approach I’ve been using through this chapter involves reading XML and XSLT data from static files, converting this data into a single string, and processing it all at once with xslt_process(). Most of the time, this process works well; however, as discussed previously, there is an alternative approach that makes it possible to use dynamically generated XML (that is, XML built using data ...