Simple XSL Transformations using XmlDocument

[Fahad Ashfaque]

Hi,
I found the XSL Transformation through .NET too complex. The most simplest
overload of System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform is Transform(inputfile, outputfile),
but this saves the result into file. I need to supply the XmlDocument object
(with the source tree loaded) and receive the output in string.

Traditionally I do this thing in very simple way which is as below:

dom.load "xmldoc.xml"
sdom.load "xsldoc.xsl"
str = dom.transformNode(sdom)

Could someone give the .NET equivalent for above code?
Thanks in advance,
Fahad

[Martin Honnen]

Fahad Ashfaque wrote:

I need to supply the XmlDocument object
(with the source tree loaded) and receive the output in string.

XslTransform xsltProcessor = new XslTransform();
xsltProcessor.Load(new XPathDocument(xsltStylesheetURI));

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();

xsltProcessor.Transform(xmlDocument, null, stringWriter);
// use stringWriter.ToString() to get the result

Note that an XmlDocument is not necessary as the input and should be
replaced by an XPathDocument if you only want to read the document for
the tranformation as XPathDocument is optimized for XPath and XSLT.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Fahad Ashfaque]

Thanks a lot Martin.

It really did help.

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

Fahad Ashfaque wrote:

I need to supply the XmlDocument object
(with the source tree loaded) and receive the output in string.

XslTransform xsltProcessor = new XslTransform();
xsltProcessor.Load(new XPathDocument(xsltStylesheetURI));

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();

xsltProcessor.Transform(xmlDocument, null, stringWriter);
// use stringWriter.ToString() to get the result

Note that an XmlDocument is not necessary as the input and should be
replaced by an XPathDocument if you only want to read the document for
the tranformation as XPathDocument is optimized for XPath and XSLT.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[BobbieW]

I have an old code that simply loads xml string (xml result from the SQL
stored procedure) from database and transforms it into html string using xsl.
I'm trying to convert it into .net.
I tired different ways based on examples, but it doesn't work and have no
more time to get it by trial-and-error kind of way.
Thanks in advance for any help.

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

Fahad Ashfaque wrote:

I need to supply the XmlDocument object
(with the source tree loaded) and receive the output in string.

XslTransform xsltProcessor = new XslTransform();
xsltProcessor.Load(new XPathDocument(xsltStylesheetURI));

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();

xsltProcessor.Transform(xmlDocument, null, stringWriter);
// use stringWriter.ToString() to get the result

Note that an XmlDocument is not necessary as the input and should be
replaced by an XPathDocument if you only want to read the document for
the tranformation as XPathDocument is optimized for XPath and XSLT.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/