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.NET & XML

by Niel M. Bornstein

November 2003

Intermediate to advanced

476 pages

14h 38m

English

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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2.2.3.1. XmlTextReader2.2.3.2. XmlValidatingReader2.2.3.3. XmlNodeReader
3.1.1.1. File access and permissions3.1.1.2. Encodings and StreamWriter
3.1.2.1. Writing data with Sockets3.1.2.2. Writing data with WebRequest
4.1.2.1. Writing the skeleton4.1.2.2. Defining the PYX traversal mechanism4.1.2.3. Storing the Node instance data4.1.2.4. Writing the tests4.1.2.5. Filling in the stubs
6.1.1.1. Parts of an XPath expression6.1.1.2. Selecting elements6.1.1.3. Selecting attributes6.1.1.4. Selecting text, comments, and processing instructions6.1.1.5. Selecting nodes by value
6.2.1.1. Selecting a single node6.2.1.2. Selecting multiple nodes6.2.1.3. Creating an XPathNavigator
6.2.3.1. Using a custom XmlReader6.2.3.2. Using a custom XPathNavigator
7.3.3.1. Creating a stylesheet7.3.3.2. Manipulating an existing stylesheet
7.3.4.1. Embedded scripts7.3.4.2. Adding parameters with XsltArgumentList7.3.4.3. Adding extensions with XsltArgumentList
9.1.1.1. The SOAP envelope9.1.1.2. Encoding rules9.1.1.3. RPC representation
10.2.3.1. Issuing an HTTP GET request10.2.3.2. Issuing an HTTP POST request10.2.3.3. Issuing a SOAP request
10.2.6.1. The UDDI data model10.2.6.2. The UDDI APIs
12.2.3.1. Member availability and flags12.2.3.2. Functional grouping of members
15.2.2.1. Choosing a configuration section handler15.2.2.2. Defining the configuration section15.2.2.3. Adding the configuration section15.2.2.4. Reading the custom configuration programmatically

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Chapter 20. The System.Xml.Xsl Namespace

The System.Xml.Xsl namespace provides support for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). XSLT is a W3C specification that describes how to transform one XML document into another with the use of stylesheet templates. For example, a common use of XSLT is to transform an XML document into standard HTML by transforming the specific elements of the input XML document into comparable HTML elements. XSLT templates use XPath expression syntax to specify which nodes of the input XML are transformed.

The XslTransform class constructs the transform object. It loads a stylesheet and applies its templates to an XML document to output the transformed data. The XsltArgumentList class creates objects for XSLT parameters that can be loaded into the stylesheet at runtime. XsltContext provides the XSLT processor with the current context node information used for XPath expression resolution. Figure 20-1 shows the types in this namespace.