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XSLT Transformation Output

Start by loading the XPathDocument, then various ways to handle the output of the transformation:

XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument(Server.MapPath("XML/Customers.xml"));

XslTransform trans = new XslTransform();

trans.Load(Server.MapPath("XSLT/Customers.xslt"));

Output with StringWriter class

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

trans.Transform(doc,null,sw);

/*

A StringBuilder class is automatically written to 

by the StringWriter class. To get the value in 

the StringBuilder you can use the ToString() 

method as shown below

*/

this.txtStringBuilder.Text = sw.ToString();

sw.Close();

Output with XmlTextWriter class

//************  XmlTextWriter XSLT Output Capture

//This can be useful when you need to apply 

formatting to the output

StringWriter sw2 = new StringWriter();

//Write to StringWriter

XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(sw2); 

xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;

xmlWriter.Indentation = 4;

trans.Transform(doc,null,xmlWriter);

this.txtXmlTextWriter.Text = sw2.ToString();

sw2.Close();

xmlWriter.Close();

Output with XmlReader class

XmlReader xmlReader = trans.Transform(doc,null);

xmlReader.MoveToContent();

this.txtXmlTextReader.Text = 

xmlReader.ReadOuterXml();

xmlReader.Close();

Output with MemoryStream class

//************  MemoryStream XSLT Output Capture

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

trans.Transform(doc,null,ms);

//Convert MemoryStream to byte array using 

ToArray()

//Convert byte array to a string using the 

UTF8Encoding class

UTF8Encoding utf = new UTF8Encoding();

this.txtMemoryStream.Text = 

utf.GetString(ms.ToArray());

ms.Close();

Code snipets from XML and WebServices magazine