Extending XSLT with JScript, C#, and Visual Basic .NET

Description:X SL Transformations (XSLT) is known for making hard things easy and easy things hard. It can simplify complex transformation logic that would be extremely tedious to implement otherwise. But at the same time, XSLT's functional programming model can sometimes make it extremely difficult to perform trivial business logic. Often extending XSLT with traditional languages like VBScript, JScript®, or any Microsoft® .NET-supported language can offer the best of both worlds (for an introduction to XSLT see the article that I cowrote with Don Box and John Lam in the August 2000 issue).