Is there an easy way to produce MSDN-style documentation from the Visual Studio XML output? I'm not patient enough to set up a good xslt for it because I know I'm not the first person to cross this bridge. Also, I tried setting up sandcastle recently, but it really made my eyes cross. Either I was missing something important in the pr...
I would have thought this would be an easy one to Google, but I've been unsucessful. I want to assign a variable the value out of an attribute (easy so far) then use that variable to select another node based on the value of that attribute. ex: <xsl:variable name="myId" select="@id" /><xsl value-of select="//Root/Some/Other/Path/Where...
I'm generating some XML documents and when it comes to the address part I have fragments that look like this: <Address>15 Sample St Example Bay Some Country</Address> The XSLT that I have for converting this to XHTML has some funky recursive template to convert newline characters within strings to <br/> tags. This is all working fine...
I'm using VS2008 SP1 - don't know if this would have happened before I applied SP1 as I never tried it before yesterday. I attempted to debug a fairly simple XSLT file using VS2008 SP1 and got this crash from VS2008 SP1: Microsoft Visual Studio Unexpected error encountered. It is recommended that you restart the application as soon a...
I need to be able to find the last occurrance of a character within an element. for example: <mediaurl><http://www.blah.com/path/to/file/media.jpg></mediaurl> If I try to locate through using substring-before(mediaurl, '.') and substring-after(mediaurl, '.') then it will, of course, match on the first dot. How would I get t...
I want to transform an XML document. The source XML looks like this: <svc:ElementList> <svc:Element> <Year>2007</Year> </svc:Element> <svc:Element> <Year>2006</Year> </svc:Element> <svc:Element> <Year>2005</Year> </svc:Element> </svc:ElementList> I want to turn that into: <ElementList> ...
I am performing a find and replace on the line feed character ( ) and replacing it with the paragraph close and paragraph open tags using the following code: <xsl:template match="/STORIES/STORY"> <component> <xsl:if test="boolean(ARTICLEBODY)"> <p> <xsl:call-template name="replace-text"> <xsl:with-p...
what is the best way to include a htlm entity in XSLT? <xsl:template match="/a/node"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:template> this one returns a XsltParseError ...
In XLST how woud you find out the length of an nodesets? ...
<xsl:for-each select="./node [position() <= (count(*) div 2)]"> <li>foo</li> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:for-each select="./node [count(*) div 2 < position()]"> <li>bar</li> </xsl:for-each> My list has 12 nodes, but the second list is always 8 and the first is always 4. What's wrong with my selects? ...
I want to apply an XSLT Stylesheet to an XML Document using C# and write the output to a File. Edit: @Rob Cooper: Yes, I am aware of that. But I couldn't find it in SO. The Idea of this site is to collect answers to any question a developer could have, right? I had this question today and thus posted an answer. Next time I look (this i...
Can anyone (maybe an XSL-fan?) help me find any advantages with handling presentation of data on a web-page with XSL over ASP.NET MVC? The two alternatives are: ASP.NET (MVC/WebForms) with XSL Getting the data from the database and transforming it to XML which is then displayed on the different pages with XSL-templates. ASP.NET MVC Ge...
I have an application which extracts data from an XML file using XPath. If a node in that XML source file is missing I want to return the value "N/A" (much like the Oracle NVL function). The trick is that the application doesn't support XSLT; I'd like to do this using XPath and XPath alone. Is that possible? ...
Here's a quick question I've been banging my head against today. I'm trying to convert a .Net dataset into an XML stream, transform it with an xsl file in memory, then output the result to a new XML file. Here's the current solution: string transformXML = @"pathToXslDocument"; XmlDocument originalXml = new XmlDocumen...
I converted my company's calendar to XSL and changed all the tables to divs. It worked pretty well, but I had a lot of 8 day week bugs to work out initially owing to precarious cross-browser spacing issues . but I was reading another post regarding when to use tables v. divs and the consensus seemed to be that you should only use divs fo...
I have a simple XML document that contains image information. I need to transform it to HTML -- simple, right? However, when I use the XSL below, it blows up with the error "Cannot write an attribute node when no element start tag is open." I can't see where the open tag is -- any ideas? XML: <root> <HeaderText> <HeaderTex...
say i have this given xml file <root> <node>x</node> <node>y</node> <node>a</node> </root> and i want the following to be displayed ayx using something similar to <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="root/node"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="node"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:templ...
Recently, I have started to have to read a lot of XSL and XSLT at my job. Some of it makes sense and some of it really doesn't. Here's an exmaple of what does not make sense to me <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" /> ...
Is it possible to validate an xml file against it's associated schema using Visual Studio 2005 IDE? I could only see options to create a schema based on the current file, or show the XSLT output ...
I'm trying to produce sheets of photographs with captions arranged in a grid using XSLT and XSL-FO. The photo URLs and captions are produced using a FOR XML query against an SQL Server database, and the number of photos returned varies from sheet to sheet. I want to lay the photos out in four columns, filling the grid from left to right ...