Zend Framework And XML/XSLT Integration

Question

I'm trying to use XML files and XSL stylesheets instead of ordinary phtml templates in Zend Framework. I'm not sure how to implement it, though.

What I've tried to do so far:

instead of .phtml views I use .xsl stylesheets
I use .xml layouts

Here is what I do in the init() method of each controller:

$this->view->xmlStylesheet = '/../application/modules/default/views/scripts/'
. $this->_request->getControllerName() . '/'
. $this->_request->getActionName() . '.xsl';

Which gives me a path like:

/../application/modules/default/views/scripts/index/index.xsl

My layout looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="<?php echo $this->escape($this->xmlStylesheet); ?>"?>
<page>
    <header></header>
    <content></content>
    <footer></footer>
</page>

And the views look like this for example:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"
        media-type="application/xhtml+xml" encoding="iso-8859-1"
        doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <html>
            <head>
                <title>Hello World</title>
                <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
            </head>
            <body>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

What I get in the browser (Firefox) though is just a blank page with source like this, for instance:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/../application/modules/default/views/scripts/index/index.xsl"?>
<page>
    <header></header>
    <content></content>
    <footer></footer>
</page>

Could somebody help me out? Take into consideration that I am an XML beginner so I'm just starting to learn how to use it effectively.

Bill Karwin · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-12 21:41:21Z

6

Here's an article on how to create a custom Zend_View class that uses XSLT to render:

"Zend Framework: XSL and self-serializing Views" (Pascal Opitz)

answered Dec 12, 2009 at 21:41

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Richard Knop Over a year ago

Thanks. Is there some plan to include support for XSLT in official ZF release sometimes in the future?

Bill Karwin Over a year ago

XSLT doesn't seem to be on the roadmap for ZF 2.0: framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV2/…

Bill Karwin Over a year ago

Also I don't find any feature request related to using XSLT in Views in their issue tracker. I think most ZF users and developers would not like this feature (even though XSLT is often a lot faster to render than PHP scripts).

fmaxim · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-17 16:36:27Z

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Here is a good tutorial with few options to implement Html Engine with PHP, XML and XSL/XSLT:

http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/zend-framework-xsl-and-self-serializing-views/

answered Oct 17, 2011 at 16:36

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