Microsoft® Visual J#™ .NET (Core Reference)

Summary

The ability to easily transform the contents of XML documents has been a key factor in the rise of XML as a data format. The .NET Framework provides all the functionality you need to incorporate such transformations into your applications or components. After reading this chapter, you should be able to use the XslTransform class to apply an XSLT transformation to XML documents from a variety of sources, including XML from ADO.NET DataSet objects.

To improve the efficiency of transformations, you can apply the XPathDocument and XPathNavigator classes. You can also pass parameters into an XSLT stylesheet using an XsltArgumentList. You can use this same mechanism to define external functionality that you can invoke from within your stylesheets. ...