files/en-us/web/api/xsltprocessor/transformtofragment/index.md
{{APIRef("DOM")}}
The transformToFragment() method of the {{domxref("XSLTProcessor")}} interface transforms a provided {{DOMxRef("Node")}} source to a {{domxref("DocumentFragment")}} using the XSLT stylesheet associated with the XSLTProcessor.
transformToFragment(source, document)
source
document
A {{domxref("DocumentFragment")}}.
This example demonstrates how to use transformToFragment() to transform XML data into HTML, which can then be directly inserted into the DOM as a document fragment.
<div id="result"></div>
const xmlString = `
<books>
<book>
<title>Book 1</title>
<author>Author 1</author>
</book>
<book>
<title>Book 2</title>
<author>Author 2</author>
</book>
</books>
`;
const xsltString = `
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="books/book">
<li>
<strong><xsl:value-of select="title"/></strong>
by <em><xsl:value-of select="author"/></em>
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
`;
const parser = new DOMParser();
const xmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(xmlString, "application/xml");
const xsltDoc = parser.parseFromString(xsltString, "application/xml");
const xsltProcessor = new XSLTProcessor();
xsltProcessor.importStylesheet(xsltDoc);
// Perform the transformation, returning the result as a document fragment
const resultFragment = xsltProcessor.transformToFragment(xmlDoc, document);
// Insert the result into the page
document.getElementById("result").appendChild(resultFragment);
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