Title: XML Documents
Author: mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)
Published: <strong>27 May 2011</strong>
Last modified: 31 May 2011

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# XML Documents

 By [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mitchoyoshitaka/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/xml-documents.0.2.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/xml-documents/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/xml-documents/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-documents/)

## Description

This plugin adds the necessary infrastructure to add a “XML Document”-type custom
post type which renders an XML document with an XSLT stylesheet in lieu of the regular
post content. This can be useful in custom applications where there is a need to
display XML documents from source, but you also want the regular benefits of WordPress
tagging, commenting, etc. for these documents.

This plugin will not work out of the box… it is an infrastructure plugin. Additional
coding (albeit minor) is necessary to get it running. See the “Installation” section
for more information and sample code.

The development of this plugin is supported by [MIT Global Shakespeares](http://globalshakespeares.org),
where it will be used to render the full text of Shakespeare plays from TEI-XML 
source.

### To-do

 * Custom stylesheets, per-document and/or custom parameters to be passed to the
   XSL transform
 * Search integration

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * A custom post type with XML Document support: here, “Scripts” for the display
   of Shakespeare scripts.
 * [[
 * Selecting an uploaded XML Document as the document to be rendered.

## Installation

 1. Make sure you have PHP5 and [the PHP XSL module](http://us3.php.net/xsl) installed.
 2. Install and activate this plugin.
 3. Create a new custom post type with the `supports` attribute `xmldoc`. This custom
    post type will completely ignore its `post_content`, so make sure its `supports`
    statement does not include `editor`.
 4. Place your stylesheet in your current theme’s directory, named as `stylesheet.xsl`.
 5. Create a new entity of your new post type. There will be an option to upload and
    choose an XML document (see screenshots). Do that, publish it, and view it, and
    you will see the XML document rendered with the XSLT as the content of that entry.

Here’s some sample code:

    ```
    register_post_type('script',
        array(
            'label' => 'Scripts',
            'public' => true,
            'hierarchical' => false,
            'supports' => array('title', 'comments', 'xmldoc')
        )
    );
    ```

For more information on `register_post_type` and Custom Post Types, [visit the Codex](https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types).

## FAQ

  Your question here!

Our answer here!

## Reviews

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## Contributors and Developers

“XML Documents” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mitchoyoshitaka/)

[Translate “XML Documents” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/xml-documents)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/xml-documents/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/xml-documents/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/xml-documents/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/xml-documents/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Change Log

#### 0.2

 * A couple bugfixes for the admin interface.

#### 0.1

 * Initial public release.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.2.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-documents/)
 * Tags
 * [cpt](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cpt/)[custom post type](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-post-type/)
   [tei](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tei/)[xml](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/xml/)
   [xslt](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/xslt/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/xml-documents/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mitchoyoshitaka/)

## Support

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