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Designing Your Own Reporting Service: A Web Service to Convert XML to HTML Using XSL


This article guides you in developing a web service which converts a given XML string to HTML based on XSL file available at server side.

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By: Jagadish Chaterjee
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December 19, 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. · Designing Your Own Reporting Service: A Web Service to Convert XML to HTML Using XSL
  2. · Developing the XML Web Service
  3. · Developing the XML Web Service continued
  4. · Defining the XSLT
  5. · Executing and testing the XML Web Service
  6. · Understanding the web service
  7. · Improvements to the solution

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Now, let us proceed with the “GenerateHTMLString” method, which is usually called by “BuildHTMLString”.

private string GenerateHTMLString(string sXMLSource)
            {
                  // Create the XslTransform.
                  XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
 
                  XmlUrlResolver resolver = new XmlUrlResolver();
                  resolver.Credentials =
System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
                 
                  // Load the stylesheet.
                  string sXSLLocation = GetXSLLocation();
                  xslt.Load( sXSLLocation );
                 
 
                  // Load the XML string.
                  XmlDataDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDataDocument();
                  xmlDoc.XmlResolver = resolver;
                  xmlDoc.LoadXml(sXMLSource);
 
                  // Create the Stream to place the output.
                  Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
 
                  // Transform the file.
                  xslt.Transform(xmlDoc, null, stream, resolver);
 
                  // Remember to Flush the Stream and set the position to
0
                  stream.Flush();
                  stream.Position = 0;
 
                  // Create a StreamReader to Read the Stream and Return
the String
                  System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader
(stream);
                  return sr.ReadToEnd();
            }

And thus, our coding (development) part is successfully finished.  The next section helps you to build the solution and test it from within Visual Studio.NET IDE to your own satisfaction.


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