The document provides an introduction and overview of using XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) with PHP4 to transform XML documents. It discusses XML basics, introduces XSLT and provides examples of using PHP's XSLT functions to apply XSL stylesheets to XML documents. It also covers more advanced XSLT topics like templates, location paths, control elements, and discusses some drawbacks of using XSLT.

1. Introduction to XSLT with PHP4 PHPCon 2002 10/25/2002, Millbrae California USA Stephan Schmidt

8. Building a content structure 2

9. Building a content structure 3

10. Building a content structure 4

14. Tree view of a document (example)

19. „ Hello World“ Example (Output)

32. Example: The World Answers (3)

37. Example: A conversation (3)

44. Architecture RENDERER HTML / XML /LaTEX /usw... Any extension XML TEMPLATES Time: Extension Dbc: Extension Ext. Entities

47. Comparison - - X Parameters Only with PHP code - X „ Intelligent“ Templates - All in one package X Ext. Repository - - X Administration X - X <?PHP ?> - - X External Entities - Yes, infinite Yes, infinite Recursion - X X Namespaces - Yes, objects and functions Yes, only object Dynamic Content (Callbacks) yes, plain HTML - yes, patTemplate Templates phpTagLib PEAR patXMLRenderer