Different behaviours for xmlTransform

[Alfons Puig]

Using the same xml and xsl files, the result of the xmlTransform.Transform
is different depending if a xmlTextwriter or a StringWriter is used. In the
first case, the output file is as expected, but in the second case, a new
<metatag is added, and the existing ones loose the /closing tag; that
means xmDocument.LoadXml(Stringbuilder.ToString) fails.

The code is:

#If 1 Then 'Good

objXMLWriter = New Xml.XmlTextWriter(sPathDoc, Nothing)

objTransform.Transform(objXPathDocument, Nothing, objXMLWriter, Nothing)

objXMLWriter.Close()

Docum.Load(sPathDoc)

#Else 'Fails

sb = New Text.StringBuilder

objXMLStream = New System.IO.StringWriter(sb)

objTransform.Transform(objXPathDocument, Nothing, objXMLStream, Nothing)

objXMLStream.Close()

Docum.LoadXml(sb.ToString)

#End If

Alfons Puig

[Martin Honnen]

Alfons Puig wrote:

Using the same xml and xsl files, the result of the xmlTransform.Transform
is different depending if a xmlTextwriter or a StringWriter is used. In the
first case, the output file is as expected, but in the second case, a new
<metatag is added, and the existing ones loose the /closing tag; that
means xmDocument.LoadXml(Stringbuilder.ToString) fails.

If you want XML output then make sure you have
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
in the stylesheet. If you have <xsl:output method="html"/in the
stylesheet then the processor will add a meta element as per
specification. And with the html output method known empty elements like
the meta element are serialized according to HTML rules so what you see
is probably simply the result of xsl:output method="html".

If you still have problems then post a minimal XML input and minimal
XSLT stylesheet where the problem occurs.

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