Question

There is a nice example on the Microsoft Website (Even vor .Net 4)

Dim xmlDoc As XmlDataDocument = New XmlDataDocument(dataSet) 

Dim xslTran As XslTransform = New XslTransform 
xslTran.Load("transform.xsl")

Dim writer As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter("xslt_output.html", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

xslTran.Transform(xmlDoc, Nothing, writer)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/query/8fd7xytc

No unfortunately XmlDataDocument is deprecated, but nobody seems to have a good answer on how to replace it in this situation?

Answer 1

You can use the following code.

Use DataSet.GetXml() to get the xml as string and then create an XDocument by parsing the string:

string xml = dataSet.GetXml();
XDocument document = XDocument.Parse(xml);

The setup of the transformation and its output is the same, except using XslCompiledTransform:

XslCompiledTransform transform = new XslCompiledTransform();
transform.Load("transform.xsl");
XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter("Output.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);

And then you can use the XslCompiledTransform.Transform() overload that takes a reader as the first argument, which you can get from calling XDocument.CreateReader():

transform.Transform(Document.CreateReader(), writer);