differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation

[Daniel]

Are the differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation documented
online anywhere? Many of my XSL's work in MSXML but transform differently in
..Net XSL transformation.

[Martin Honnen]

Daniel wrote:

Are the differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation documented
online anywhere? Many of my XSL's work in MSXML but transform differently in
.Net XSL transformation.

Both MSXML 3 and MSXML 4 and .NET implement XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 thus
as long as you are using a stylesheet in the namespace
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
and stick to the standard there shouldn't be any differences.
MSXML 3 also implements a WD (working draft) version published before
XSLT 1.0 became a standard, if you have stylesheets conforming with that
working draft then they are useless with .NET unless you rewrite them to
comply with the XSLT 1.0 standard.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Pranav Kandula [MSFT]]

>>MSXML 3 also implements a WD (working draft) version published before XSLT
1.0 became a standard
This is not true. MSXML3 was first released on web in Oct 2000 and it did
implement full XSLT which was a recommendation in 1999.
I guess you are referring to the first version of MSXML which implemented a
WD of XSL 1.0 not XSLT.

Daniel, What are those things where you are seeing the differences between
the 2 transform techniques ?

Pranav Kandula

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Daniel wrote:

Are the differences between MSXML and .Net XSL transformation documented
online anywhere? Many of my XSL's work in MSXML but transform differently in .Net XSL transformation.

Both MSXML 3 and MSXML 4 and .NET implement XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 thus
as long as you are using a stylesheet in the namespace
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
and stick to the standard there shouldn't be any differences.
MSXML 3 also implements a WD (working draft) version published before
XSLT 1.0 became a standard, if you have stylesheets conforming with that
working draft then they are useless with .NET unless you rewrite them to
comply with the XSLT 1.0 standard.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Pranav Kandula [MSFT] wrote:

MSXML 3 also implements a WD (working draft) version published before XSLT

1.0 became a standard
This is not true. MSXML3 was first released on web in Oct 2000 and it did
implement full XSLT which was a recommendation in 1999.
I guess you are referring to the first version of MSXML which implemented a
WD of XSL 1.0 not XSLT.

As a matter of interest, MSXML3 does support WD-XSL language. MSXML4
doesn't though. I think the reason why WD-XSL is still supported is that
default XML stylesheet (which works when you open styleless XML
document in IE) is written in WD-XSL (res://msxml3.dll/defaultss.xsl)
and can't be translated into XSLT due to differences in data model (e.g.
XSLT never can process XML declaration or CDATA sectin, while WD-XSL could).

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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com