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xslt_set_sax_handlers

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6)

xslt_set_sax_handlersSet the SAX handlers to be called when the XML document gets processed

Description

void xslt_set_sax_handlers ( resource $processor , array $handlers )

xslt_set_sax_handlers() registers the SAX handlers for the document, given a XSLT processor resource.

Using xslt_set_sax_handlers() doesn't look very different than running a SAX parser like xml_parse() on the result of an xslt_process() transformation.

Parameters

processor

The XSLT processor link identifier, created with xslt_create().

handlers

handlers should be an array in the following format:

<?php

$handlers 
= array(

  
"document" => array(
    
"start_doc",
    
"end_doc"),

  
"element"  => array(
    
"start_element",
    
"end_element"),

  
"namespace" => array(
    
"start_namespace",
    
"end_namespace"),

  
"comment"   => "comment",

  
"pi"        => "pi",

  
"character" => "characters"

);
?>
Where the functions follow the syntax described for the scheme handler functions.

Note: The given array does not need to contain all of the different sax handler elements (although it can), but it only needs to conform to "handler" => "function" format described above.

Each of the individual SAX handler functions are in the format below:

  • start_doc ( resource $processor )

  • end_doc ( resource $processor )

  • start_element ( resource $processor , string $name , array $attributes )

  • end_element ( resource $processor , string $name )

  • start_namespace ( resource $processor , string $prefix , string $uri )

  • end_namespace ( resource $processor , string $prefix )

  • comment ( resource $processor , string $contents )

  • pi ( resource $processor , string $target , string $contents )

  • characters ( resource $processor , string $contents )

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example #1 xslt_set_sax_handlers() Example

<?php
// From ohlesbeauxjours at yahoo dot fr
// Here's a simple example that applies strtoupper() on
// the content of every <auteur> tag and then displays the
// resulting XML tree:

$xml='<?xml version="1.0"?>
<books>
 <book>
  <title>Mme Bovary</title>
  <author>Gustave Flaubert</author>
 </book>
 <book>
  <title>Mrs Dalloway</title>
  <author>Virginia Woolf</author>
 </book>
</books>'
;

$xsl='<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="no" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:for-each select="books/book">
  <livre>
   <auteur><xsl:value-of select="author/text()"/></auteur>
  </livre>
 </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>'
;

// Handlers :
function start_document()
{
  
// start reading the document
}

function 
end_document()
{
  
// end reading the document
}

function 
start_element($parser$name$attributes)
{
  global 
$result,$tag;
  
$result .= "<"$name ">";
  
$tag $name;
}

function 
end_element($parser$name)
{
  global 
$result;
  
$result .= "</" $name ">";
}

function 
characters($parser$data)
{
  global 
$result,$tag;
  if (
$tag == "auteur" ) {
    
$data strtoupper($data);
  }
  
$result .= $data;
}

// Transformation :
$xh xslt_create();
$handlers = array("document" => array("start_document","end_document"),
   
"element" => array("start_element","end_element"),
   
"character" => "characters");

xslt_set_sax_handlers($xh$handlers);
xslt_process($xh'arg:/_xml''arg:/_xsl'NULL, array("/_xml"=>$xml"/_xsl"=>$xsl));
xslt_free($xh);
?>

You can also use xslt_set_object() if you want to implement your handlers in an object.

Example #2 Object oriented handler

<?php
// This is the object oriented version of the previous example
class data_sax_handler {

  var 
$buffer$tag$attrs;

  var 
$_xh;

  function 
data_sax_handler($xml$xsl)
  {
      
// our xslt resource
      
$this->_xh xslt_create();

      
xslt_set_object($this->_xs$this);

      
// configure sax handlers
      
$handlers = array(
        
"document" => array('start_document''end_document'),
        
"element" => array('start_element''end_element'),
        
"character" => 'characters'
      
);

      
xslt_set_sax_handlers($this->_xh$handlers);

      
xslt_process($this->_xh'arg:/_xml''arg:/_xsl'NULL, array("/_xml"=>$xml"/_xsl"=>$xsl));
      
xslt_free($this->_xh);


  }

  function 
start_document()
  {
        
// start reading the document
  
}

  function 
end_document() {
        
// complete reading the document
  
}

  function 
start_element($parser$name$attributes) {
        
$this->tag $name;
        
$this->buffer .= "<" $name ">";
        
$this->attrs $attributes;
  }

  function 
end_element($parser$name)
  {
        
$this->tag '';
        
$this->buffer .= "</" $name ">";
  }

  function 
characters($parser$data)
  {
    if (
$this->tag == 'auteur') {
          
$data strtoupper($data);
    }
    
$this->buffer .= $data;
  }

  function 
get_buffer() {
    return 
$this->buffer;
  }

}

$exec = new data_sax_handler($xml$xsl);

?>

Both examples will output:

<livre>
   <auteur>GUSTAVE FLAUBERT</auteur>
</livre>
<livre>
   <auteur>VIRGINIA WOOLF</auteur>
</livre>

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