C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

XslTransform

Synopsis

This object uses the Load( )method to input a stylesheet from either a URL, an XPathNavigator object, an object implementing IXPathNavigable, or an XmlReader object (remember, an XSL stylesheet is an XML document itself). The Transform( ) method takes a URL, an XPathNavigator object, or an object implementing IXPathNavigable as its first argument, which contains the XML document to transform. The second argument is an XsltArgumentList object; see XsltArgumentList for an example of using bound functions and/or variables.

The transformed result is output to an XmlReader object by default, or you can specify either a System.IO.Stream, XmlWriter, or XmlTextWriter object in the third argument for the output.

Note that in the .NET 1.1 release, any method or constructor of this class which does not take an XmlResolver instance has been marked obsolete, in favor of overloads that take an XmlResolver instance to resolve external entities (DTD references, entity references, and so on). Change any legacy (pre-1.1) code using those methods to take an XmlResolver instance in the method or constructor call, as these obsolete methods could disappear in a future version of the framework.

public sealed class XslTransform {
// Public Constructors
   public XslTransform( );
// Public Instance Properties
   public XmlResolver XmlResolver{set; } 
// obsolete
                  // Public Instance Methods
   public void Load(System.Xml.XPath.IXPathNavigable stylesheet);
// obsolete
   public void Load(// obsolete ...