Converting XML into HTML using XSL?

Question

I have some XML, a XSL file and 4 CSS files. I am trying to process the XML using XSLTProcessor but it isn't working.

    $xml = new DomDocument;
    $xml->load('label.xml');

    $xsl = new DomDocument;
    $xsl->load('HTMLRestOfWorldRoutingLabelRendererOrig.xsl');

    $proc = new xsltprocessor;
    $proc->importStyleSheet($xsl);
    $result = $proc->transformToXML($xml); 

    echo $result;

But this just displays the below without any sort of formatting.

<?xml version="1.0"?>



            1
            1.11kg
            piece1
            1100123456782011641024001011
            123456782|123456782||1||John Smith|TNT Express|ATHERSTONE|CV9 1TT|GB|S||TNT Corporate Head Office|Neptunusstraat 41-63|AMSTERDAM|1011 AA|NL||EX|N|PR||||0|12.34|GBP|N|piecelinegoods desc|3|1.11|1.3676310000000003|N|18 Jan 2012|13:51:00


            2
            1.11kg
            piece1
            1100123456782021641024001011
            123456782|123456782||2||John Smith|TNT Express|ATHERSTONE|CV9 1TT|GB|S||TNT Corporate Head Office|Neptunusstraat 41-63|AMSTERDAM|1011 AA|NL||EX|N|PR||||0|12.34|GBP|N|piecelinegoods desc|3|1.11|1.3676310000000003|N|18 Jan 2012|13:51:00


            3
            1.11kg
            piece3
            1100123456782031641024001011
            123456782|123456782||3||John Smith|TNT Express|ATHERSTONE|CV9 1TT|GB|S||TNT Corporate Head Office|Neptunusstraat 41-63|AMSTERDAM|1011 AA|NL||EX|N|PR||||0|12.34|GBP|N|piecelinegoods desc|3|1.11|1.3676310000000003|N|18 Jan 2012|13:51:00


            123456782

                John Smith
                TNT Express
                TNT House
                ATHERSTONE
                Warks
                CV9 1TT
                GB


                TNT Corporate Head Office
                Neptunusstraat 41-63
                2132 JA Hoofddorp
                AMSTERDAM

                1011 AA
                NL


                100445
                GB

            3
            Express
            PR
            2012-01-18
            INT
            AIR
            C
            2


                CVT



                    EMA


                    LGG



                SP8
                19
                2012-01-19


            01

            GBP 12.34

            BSH

My label.xml is at http://pastebin.com/Shm09jCK

I have uploaded HTMLRestOfWorldRoutingLabelRendererOrig.xsl to http://pastebin.com/QPXE3B0r

I must be missing something obvious but this is new to me and I am not sure!

Answer 1

Try:

<xsl:output method="html" />

Answer 2

In your XSLT code there isn't any template that has a match attribute. This means that none of the templates are executed and the XSLT processor applies the built-in (default) templates for every node type.

The net result from applying the built-in templates is that the output is a concatenation of all text nodes in the source XML document -- which is exactly what you get.

Solution:

Define at least one matching template such as <xsl:template match="/">. Within the code of this template you may call your named templates, though calling templates is generally a bad practice and applying templates should generally be preferred.