Question

I wish to use xml and xsl to generate controls on an asp.net page.

I currently have a asp.net content page that contains a xml control. When the page is loaded, an xml file is loaded and the required element is extracted and set as the xml control’s DocumentContent and the xml control’s TransformSource is set to the appropriate xsl file.

In the xsl file, I wish to use templates to create asp.net controls depending upon the contents of the xml. Is there an easy way of doing this with the xml control on the content page?

Answer 1

The generated output of transform is not parsed to be added to the page as set of controls. Rather the generated output is sent to the response. Therefore you cannot apply a transform to an XML control that will generate new controls.

There may be a way to create the transform result and invoke some parsing that can be applied to the page but that would not meet your ‘easy’ requirement.