xslt stylesheets as assembly resources?

[arvee]

I like the idea of doing transforms on XML data via stylesheet, but I don't
like having to manage lots of .xslt files.

Is there a standardized approach to storing xslt strings in a .net
application?

[Nigel Armstrong]

Hi arvee

Good question - start by setting the Build Action on your .xsl files to
embedded resource. Then you can get access to the files using the following
code:

Dim a As System.Reflection.Assembly =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly
Dim s As IO.Stream = a.GetManifestResourceStream("AssemblyName.test.xsl ")
Dim sr As New IO.StreamReader(s)
MessageBox.Show(sr.ReadToEnd()

HTH

Nigel Armstrong

"arvee" wrote:

I like the idea of doing transforms on XML data via stylesheet, but I don't
like having to manage lots of .xslt files.

Is there a standardized approach to storing xslt strings in a .net
application?

[Dennis Myrén]

You could store them in an assembly resource file, accessing them by a key.

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Regards,
Dennis JD Myrén
Oslo Kodebureau
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I like the idea of doing transforms on XML data via stylesheet, but I don't
like having to manage lots of .xslt files.

Is there a standardized approach to storing xslt strings in a .net
application?