Transforming
XML documents using XSLT can be done in many ways. Whatever be the method
to transform an XML document you have to create an XSL file for the
transformation.
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Using
tools meant for that purpose will speed up your development process.
Once you have our XSL in place, you can write the code to do the transformation.
In ASP.Net
you have System.Xml, System.Xml.Xsl, and System.Xml.Xpath for this purpose.
You can use the classes available in these namespaces to do the transformation.
You can create an XslTransform object and use the Load method of that
object to load the XSL document into it.
Then use
the Transform method available to do the transformation of the source
XML file to the resulting document.
To do a
simple transformation, you can even include the XSL file in the XML
document itself by using the "xml-stylesheet" tag which takes
the XSL file as one of the values of the attributes. Once you set it
you can simple open the XML file to see the transformation done by the
browser itself.
