XSL tutorial

[jimeh]

Could anyone please point me to a tutorial or other example of how to load an XSL document into a C++ program, and then use it to transform a node/document in another XML file?

At this point I can't even load the stylesheet. HRESULT just returns -1 and that does not give me much information about what's wrong with my stylesheet. Maybe someone knows about a way to validate a stylesheet?

[dkar]

See MSDN /Platform SDK Documentation/Data Services/XML.

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XSL is an ordinary XML. And you should load it as XML document IXMLDOMDocument->load() or IXMLDOMDocument->loadXML().

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How to understend loading error:

The document interface has this property:
IXMLDOMDocument->parseError is IXMLDOMParseError.
And it has such interface:

IXMLDOMParseError->errorCode: Contains the error code of the last parse error. Read-only.

IXMLDOMParseError->filepos: Contains the absolute file position where the error occurred. Read-only.

IXMLDOMParseError->line: Specifies the line number that contains the error. Read-only.

IXMLDOMParseError->linepos Contains the character position within the line where the error occurred. Read-only.

IXMLDOMParseError->reason: Explains the reason for the error. Read-only.

IXMLDOMParseError->srcText: Returns the full text of the line containing the error. Read-only.

IXMLDOMParseError->url: Contains the URL of the XML document containing the last error. Read-only.

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Then how to use XSL for transformation:

For each node can be applyed this methods:

IXMLDOMNode->transformNode() Processes this node and its children using the supplied Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) style sheet and returns the resulting transformation.

IXMLDOMNode->transformNodeToObject() Processes this node and its children using the supplied XSLT style sheet and returns the resulting transformation in the supplied object.

Denis.

[jimeh]

Thanks for your help! This will for sure help a lot when trying to figure out why my transformations are misbehaving.

Thanks for your time!