(PHP 5, PHP 7)
XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc — Transform to a DOMDocument
public XSLTProcessor::transformToDoc ( object $document [, string|null $returnClass = null ] ) : DOMDocument|false
Transforms the source node to a DOMDocument applying the stylesheet given by the XSLTProcessor::importStylesheet() method.
document
The node to be transformed.
 The resulting DOMDocument or false on error. 
Example #1 Transforming to a DOMDocument
<?php
// Load the XML source
$xml = new DOMDocument;
$xml->load('collection.xml');
$xsl = new DOMDocument;
$xsl->load('collection.xsl');
// Configure the transformer
$proc = new XSLTProcessor;
$proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules
echo trim($proc->transformToDoc($xml)->firstChild->wholeText);
?> The above example will output:
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