Transforming an XML document using XSL using PHP is very easy if you are using the document object model available in PHP. The steps involved in transforming an XML document are the same as you do with other programming languages like ASP and ASP.Net.

You will be creating two new document objects. One is for loading the XML document and the other is for loading the XSL document. Then create an instance of the XSLT processor and register the PHP functions using the registerPHPFunctions() method.

Now use the import stylesheet method of the XSLT processor instance to import the XSL style sheet that was earlier loaded in the DOM. After this step use the transformToDoc method of the XSLT processor to transform the XML document.

The transformToDoc method takes the XML document object as its argument. Now print the resulting transformation. This method is an easy way to transform an XML document using XSL in PHP. Lots of examples on this are available online.

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