Question

I am working on a page that inherits a Base Page. The aspx page includes a control that uses xslt for to transform an xml document to html markup. Within that document I am using the following:

<xsl:template match="Headline">
    <h1 runat="server" id="h1" class="article-heading">
      <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    </h1>
</xsl:template>

I am trying to get the get the value of the h1 to set it to page.title, can this be done with page.findControl ?

Answer 1

XSLT within a browser tends to be interpreted on the client-side, not the server side. Using Page.FindControl to find the content of the H1 won’t get you too far, as all that will return is the literal <xsl:value-of…> statement.

The best approach is to also open the XML document within the codebehind on the server and set the Page Title from there.