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0564 XSLT
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XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.
It is an XML language that describes how to transform one XML language into another.
Consider the following XML file:
<customer>
<firstname>Jim</firstname>
<lastname>Bo</lastname>
</customer>
The following XSLT file describes such a transformation:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<p><xsl:value-of select="//firstname"/></p>
<p><xsl:value-of select="//lastname"/></p>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The output is as follows:
<html>
<p>Jack</p>
<p>Smith</p>
</html>
The System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform transform class efficiently performs
XLST transforms. It renders XmlTransform obsolete. XmlTransform works very simply:
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
XslCompiledTransform transform = new XslCompiledTransform();
transform.Load("test.xslt");
transform.Transform("input.xml", "output.xml");
}
}
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