Transoforming XML via XSLT into a string?

[darrel]

I don't do a lot with XML, so I always get a bit lost navigating the XML
classes.

In the past, I've used this:

xslt.Transform(doc, xslArg, Response.Output, Nothing)

Which takes my xml file (doc) and dumps out the XML.

What I'd like to do is isntead of having it just dump the HTML, have it sent
to a string variable.

I'm confused as to how to do that. It seems as if this should work:

Dim doc As System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument = New
System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument(XMLfile)
Dim transformedXML As System.IO.TextWriter
xslt.Transform(doc, Nothing, transformedXML)
myString = transformedXML.tostring

but it's not (getting hung up with my xslt.transform line).

What's the proper way to transform an XML file via XSLT and get it as a
string?

-Darrel

[Aaron Dunnington [MSFT]]

Hi Darrel,

Thanks for using our products!

The transformation output can be written to a string using a StringWriter.

Please see the sample in the post listed below. At the end of the sample,
the following method is used to output the transformation results to a
StringWriter. Then, the contents of the string can be accessed through the
ToString method of the StringWriter.

myXslDoc.Transform(myXmlDoc, Nothing, myStringWriter)

Console.WriteLine(myStringWriter.ToString())

Example Post
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If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to
respond to this post.

Thanks!
Aaron

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"darrel" wrote:

I don't do a lot with XML, so I always get a bit lost navigating the XML
classes.

In the past, I've used this:

xslt.Transform(doc, xslArg, Response.Output, Nothing)

Which takes my xml file (doc) and dumps out the XML.

What I'd like to do is isntead of having it just dump the HTML, have it sent
to a string variable.

I'm confused as to how to do that. It seems as if this should work:

Dim doc As System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument = New
System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument(XMLfile)
Dim transformedXML As System.IO.TextWriter
xslt.Transform(doc, Nothing, transformedXML)
myString = transformedXML.tostring

but it's not (getting hung up with my xslt.transform line).

What's the proper way to transform an XML file via XSLT and get it as a
string?

-Darrel

[darrel]

Hi Darrel,

>
The transformation output can be written to a string using a StringWriter.

myXslDoc.Transform(myXmlDoc, Nothing, myStringWriter)

Console.WriteLine(myStringWriter.ToString())

ah! StringWRITER. That did it. Thanks!

As a follow-up, can you explain what XMLResolvers are? A lot of the XML
functions say that they are obsolete without an XMLResolver. So I just toss
in a lot of 'NOTHING's which seems to work but I feel that I should better
understsand what the XMLResolvers are actually used for.

-Darrel