class Nokogiri::XSLT::Stylesheet

A Stylesheet represents an XSLT Stylesheet object. Stylesheet creation is done through Nokogiri.XSLT. Here is an example of transforming an XML::Document with a Stylesheet:

doc   = Nokogiri::XML(File.read('some_file.xml'))
xslt  = Nokogiri::XSLT(File.read('some_transformer.xslt'))

xslt.transform(doc) # => Nokogiri::XML::Document

Many XSLT transformations include serialization behavior to emit a non-XML document. For these cases, please take care to invoke the serialize method on the result of the transformation:

doc   = Nokogiri::XML(File.read('some_file.xml'))
xslt  = Nokogiri::XSLT(File.read('some_transformer.xslt'))
xslt.serialize(xslt.transform(doc)) # => String

or use the apply_to method, which is a shortcut for ‘serialize(transform(document))`:

doc   = Nokogiri::XML(File.read('some_file.xml'))
xslt  = Nokogiri::XSLT(File.read('some_transformer.xslt'))
xslt.apply_to(doc) # => String

See Nokogiri::XSLT::Stylesheet#transform for more information and examples.

Public Instance Methods

apply_to(document, params = []) → String

Source

# File lib/nokogiri/xslt/stylesheet.rb, line 44
def apply_to(document, params = [])
  serialize(transform(document, params))
end

Apply an XSLT stylesheet to an XML::Document and serialize it properly. This method is equivalent to calling serialize on the result of transform.

Parameters

document is an instance of XML::Document to transform
params is an array of strings used as XSLT parameters, passed into transform

Returns: A string containing the serialized result of the transformation.

See Nokogiri::XSLT::Stylesheet#transform for more information and examples.