XML API - pdx:transformDocument

LAYOUT & GENERAL

WORD CONTENT

TEMPLATES

FORMAT CONVERSION

DOCXPATH

DOCXUTILITIES

DOCXPATHUTILITIES

PDFUTILITIES

DOCXCUSTOMIZER

customizeWordContent

CRYPTOPHPDOCX

DIGITAL SIGNATURE

pdx:transformDocument

Transforms documents into other formats (DOCX, PDF, HTML, XHTML, DOC, RTF, PNG, TXT).

Note

You are reading the XML API documentation. For the PHP API method please go to transformDocument.

Description

Element definition

<pdx:config>
    <pdx:transformDocument pdx:src="" pdx:target="" pdx:toc="" />
</pdx:config>

This method allows to transform a DOCX document, generated or not with phpdocx, into PDF, HTML, DOC, RTF, PNG and TXT preserving, as much as possible, the original formatting options.

You may find more info regarding this element in the Conversion plugin help section and in our Tutorial.

Attributes and sub-elements

src

Path to the DOCX that you want to convert to a different format.

target

Path to the resulting transformed document (.pdf, .html, .xhtml, .docx, .doc, .odt, .rtf, .png or .txt).

Code samples

Example #1

config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:config>
        <pdx:output pdx:name="output" pdx:type="pdf" />
        <pdx:transformDocument pdx:src="/var/www/phpdocx/samples/files/document.docx" pdx:target="/var/www/phpdocx/samples/FormatConversion/transformDocument/document.pdf" />
    </pdx:config>
</pdx:document>

content.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:content>
    </pdx:content>
</pdx:document>

settings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:settings>
    </pdx:settings>
</pdx:document>

PHP code

require_once 'path_to_phpdocx/classes/CreateDocx.php';

$docx = new XMLAPI('config.xml');
$docx->setDocumentProperties('settings.xml');
$docx->addContent('content.xml');

$docx->render();

The resulting Word document looks like: