I was looking for a solution on how to execute an XSL transform on a C# project file and convert it to a Nant build file. Nant provides the xsl file to do the conversion under the open source license agreement ( courtesy of Gordon Weakliem), but Nant does not provide away of producing the transformation. In my search I found some expensive solutions and decided that I didn't want to spend the $100-$1000 dollars on a tool to do this since XSLT transformation is built right into the .NET framework. The tool took all of 15 minutes to write in .NET so I think it was worth the time spent.

In part 4 of this series on analyzing data with XSLT, the MindMap Research Team realized that the cognitive data they're analyzing might be easier to understand if represented in the 3D space for which it is intended. The team decides to use XSLT to transform it into a 3D graph so changing the viewpoint changes the view of the data. This tutorial shows how to implement this from a command line and using a browser to display the results.

XSL provides a way of performing complex transformations on XML data. By using combinations of templates and scripting, you can significantly expand these transformations to perform precise validation and queries, incorporate subordinate documents, and generate highly sophisticated applications from any data.

The XSL Transformations (XSLT) specification defines an XML-based language for expressing transformation rules that map one XML document to another. XSLT has many of the constructs found in traditional programming languages, including variables, functions, iteration, and conditional statements. In this article you'll learn how to use the XSLT instructions and template rules, manage namespaces, control transformation output, use multiple stylesheets, and employ pattern-matching with template rules. A sidebar explains how to access XSLT from MSXML using the IXSLTemplate and IXSLProcessor interfaces.

There are at least two ways that you can get IntelliSense for XSLT in Visual Studio .NET. One way is to buy a third-party product like the ActiveState Visual XSLT plug-in, and the other is to take advantage of the generic XML IntelliSense in Visual Studio .NET, which is driven by XML Schema definitions. The former option requires spending a little cash while the latter choice simply requires finding an XML Schema definition for XSLT.

Explore the combination of the XML processing language XSL with the newly released JavaServer Faces (JSF) standard API, using the Apache Cocoon framework as an enabler for both.

Its enthusiasts say one of the main benefits of XML is that it separates data from its presentation. Without elaboration, this claim seems unimpressive. However, by combining XML data with an XSL Transformations (XSLT) style sheet, you have a powerful wayto dynamically transform and present information. Just as cascading style sheets (CSS) brought new richness and interactivity to static HTML pages, XSLT style sheets extend the value of XML data. XSLT goes beyond the traditional capabilities of cascadingstyle sheets by offering not only the ability to present XML data, but also to transform it into completely new data tailored specifically to a particular user, media, or client. In short, with XSLT, you can transform "dumb data" into "device-aware" or "customer-aware" information. XSLT provides a mechanism for packaging, exchanging, and presenting XML data. With XSLT, you can do the following.

XSL 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.

In past articles, I've described ways to use Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) to transform XML into HTML for display. There are, however, other fine uses for XSL. It can be used to transform your current XML into new XML. Let's say, for instance, your XML exists in the following format:

If you have ever written an ASP page, you've probably engaged in two activities: reading information from some external resource and saving other (generally modified) information to some other resource, which has only incidental importance to the ultimate output that gets sent to the client. Some of this is state information—such as storing information that may have come from a query string request—while in other cases, you're updating a database from a form post, or perhaps storing a file.

People are using XML to manage the publishing process for large, complex Web sites. Examples include an interview with Mike Moore on how www.microsoft.com has used XML to manage its complex needs and Streamlining Your Web Site Using XML, a high-level overview of how companies such as Dell use XML to streamline their entire publishing process.

Guest author Oleg Tkachenko explains how you can postprocess XSL transformation results into multiple documents using the XslTransform and XmlTextWriter classes in the .NET Framework.

Guest author Prajakta Joshi discusses secure programming practices while transforming XML data with the .NET XslTransform class. Topics include resolving imported/included stylesheets, resolving document() function references, using stylesheet script, and extension objects.

Learn how to overcome the limitations of XSLT 1.0 with these 2.0 features XSLT is a powerful language that has been widely used to transform XML documents. However, XSLT in its current 1.0 version has limitations that can make writing stylesheets difficult and complex. In this Technical Article, I will describe five new features in XSLT 2.0 that will help overcome these limitations.

In part 4 of this series on analyzing data with XSLT, the MindMap Research Team realized that the cognitive data they're analyzing might be easier to understand if represented in the 3D space for which it is intended. The team decides to use XSLT to transform it into a 3D graph so changing the viewpoint changes the view of the data. This tutorial shows how to implement this from a command line and using a browser to display the results.

This article explains the Microsoft Excel 2002 XML Spreadsheet format and how XSLT can be used to transform XML data imported into Excel to another format. Examples guide the reader through creating an XML spreadsheet file and changing the format by using an XSLT style sheet.

In this lesson, I will explain default XSLT behavior, and will show you how to write Java code that mimics that behavior. The resulting Java code serves as a skeleton for more advanced transformation programs.

Welcome to the third installment of Developer.com's introduction to XSLT. The first two parts (Part One and Part Two) have introduced the most fundamental XSLT instructions:

XML Stylesheet Transformations (XSLT) is defined as a language for transforming source XML documents into another document formats using XML Path Language (XPath) as a query language. This is particularly useful when incoming or outgoing XML documents do not match the document type expected by the target system.

XSLT and XPath are gaining a reputation for helping developers tie into web and web services applications. But one of the drawbacks of using these tools is that developers think they need to be XML experts. Integration Developer News spoke with Zarella L. Rendon, coauthor (with John Robert Gardner) of Prentice Hall's XSLT and XPath: A Guide to XML Transformations, to find out what aspects of XSLT and XPath can help developers with their web services and integration projects.