XmlDocument

[JJBean]

Hi Oleg and All,

Is this correct? Can I do this?

<code>

XmlDocument doc=new XmlDocument();
XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavig ator();
//Load the xml file. Change path if needed
doc.Load(@"..\. .\..\books.xml" );
XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
xslt.Load(@"D:\ XML\XSL Ex2\Personnel2. xsl");
StringWriter fs = new StringWriter();
xslt.Transform( doc, null, fs, null);

XmlNode node=doc.Select SingleNode("boo kstore"); <-
Here is the problem
</code>

I need to transform the XML First using xslt.transform
then take the resulting XML and assign it to an XmlNode.
How should this be done?

Thanks,

JJBean :)

[JJ]

I guess my question is worded wrong. This line :

XmlNode node=doc.Select SingleNode("boo kstore"); <- Here
is the problem

in my code. At this point does "doc" have the xslt
applied to it so that I am working with the resulting xml
in DOC?

JJ

-----Original Message-----

Hi Oleg and All,

Is this correct? Can I do this?

<code>

XmlDocument doc=new XmlDocument();
XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavig ator();
//Load the xml file. Change path if needed
doc.Load(@"..\. .\..\books.xml" );
XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
xslt.Load(@"D:\ XML\XSL Ex2\Personnel2. xsl");
StringWriter fs = new StringWriter();
xslt.Transform( doc, null, fs, null);

XmlNode node=doc.Select SingleNode("boo kstore"); <-
Here is the problem
</code>

I need to transform the XML First using xslt.transform
then take the resulting XML and assign it to an XmlNode.How should this be done?

Thanks,

JJBean :)

.

[JJ]

This is really frustrating.

How do u apply a XSLT transform to an XmlDocument in c#?
Could you show me this in code ? I'm sure it's only
acouple of lines but can't find any examples on it.

Thanks,

JJ

-----Original Message-----

Hi Oleg and All,

Is this correct? Can I do this?

<code>

XmlDocument doc=new XmlDocument();
XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavig ator();
//Load the xml file. Change path if needed
doc.Load(@"..\. .\..\books.xml" );
XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
xslt.Load(@"D:\ XML\XSL Ex2\Personnel2. xsl");
StringWriter fs = new StringWriter();
xslt.Transform( doc, null, fs, null);

XmlNode node=doc.Select SingleNode("boo kstore"); <-
Here is the problem
</code>

I need to transform the XML First using xslt.transform
then take the resulting XML and assign it to an XmlNode.How should this be done?

Thanks,

JJBean :)

.

[Oleg Tkachenko]

JJ wrote:

I guess my question is worded wrong. This line :

XmlNode node=doc.Select SingleNode("boo kstore"); <- Here
is the problem

in my code. At this point does "doc" have the xslt
applied to it so that I am working with the resulting xml
in DOC?

Not really. XSLT never changes input XML. As per
xslt.Transform( doc, null, fs, null);
the result was written to fs.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
XML Insider
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog

[Oleg Tkachenko]

JJ wrote:

How do u apply a XSLT transform to an XmlDocument in c#?

Applying transformation doesn't mean modification of the input
XmlDocument. XmlDocument in your code is "source" XML in XSLT terms. The
result is never the same as source.
Actually I can imangine XSL transformation to be appended directly to
the input DOM, via XmlNodeWriter class:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("input .xml");
XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
xslt.Load("test .xsl");
XmlNodeWriter nw = new XmlNodeWriter(d oc.DocumentElem ent, false);
xslt.Transform( doc, null, nw);
nw.Close();
doc.Save(Consol e.Out);

Above transformation appends result to the input DOM. Just tried, seems
to be working. Of course it could be dangerous, say you can replace
input data with result data prior they are processed.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
XML Insider
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog

[JJ]

Hi Oleg,

I am interested in why you chose to use XmlNodeWriter
as the writer and not like Xmlwriter or streamwriter?

Thanks for helping me out Oleg, I really appreciate it!
And you have really wet my appetite on using XML. It's
pretty kool.
Thanks,
JJ

-----Original Message-----
JJ wrote:

How do u apply a XSLT transform to an XmlDocument in

c#?
Applying transformation doesn't mean modification of the inputXmlDocument. XmlDocument in your code is "source" XML in XSLT terms. Theresult is never the same as source.
Actually I can imangine XSL transformation to be appended directly tothe input DOM, via XmlNodeWriter class:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("inpu t.xml");
XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
xslt.Load("tes t.xsl");
XmlNodeWrite r nw = new XmlNodeWriter (doc.DocumentEl ement, false);xslt.Transform (doc, null, nw);
nw.Close();
doc.Save(Conso le.Out);

Above transformation appends result to the input DOM. Just tried, seemsto be working. Of course it could be dangerous, say you can replaceinput data with result data prior they are processed.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
XML Insider
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog

.

[Oleg Tkachenko]

JJ wrote:

I am interested in why you chose to use XmlNodeWriter
as the writer and not like Xmlwriter or streamwriter?

Because I wanted to write to XmlDocument. And after all XmlNodeWriter is
XmlWriter. But when using StreamWriter, there is an superfluous overhead
of serializing and reparsing XML back to DOM. Using XmlNodeWriter you
can write directly to DOM with no any interim buffers.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
XML Insider
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog