Question

Is it possible to pass a public variable set in an C# asp.net codebehind page through to be then used within XSL 1.0?

Answer 1

I believe so – this would be an example

 XslCompiledTransform xslt = new XslCompiledTransform();
 xslt.Load("order.xsl");

 // Create the XsltArgumentList.
  XsltArgumentList xslArg = new XsltArgumentList();

 // Create a parameter which represents the current date and time.
  DateTime d = DateTime.Now;
 xslArg.AddParam("date", "", d.ToString());

 // Transform the file.
 xslt.Transform("order.xml", xslArg, XmlWriter.Create("output.xml"));

The parameter date is replaced from within the xslt stylesheet

The XSLT fragement that is replaced looks like this

<date><xsl:value-of select="$date"/></date>

This is all from MSDN. It works from ASP.Net 2.0 onwards