"Derek Harmon" <loresayer@msn.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul Hatcher" <phatcher@spamless.cix.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Is it possible to control the node style that XslTransform uses to
output
> > XML?
>
> Not directly on the XslTransform class, but there is a way (see below).
>
> : :
> > but if I use the XslTransform class I get
> >
> > <mySchema rdf:resource='fred'></mySchema>
> >
> > Unfortunately, my RDF parser doesn't like the second form,
>
> This is a bug in the RDF parser. The Infoset represented by both
> serializations is identical.
>
> The reason XSLT doesn't address this is that the particulars of the
> XML syntax are irrelevant to the document's content (i.e., it doesn't
> matter whether double-quote or single-quote is used to delimit the
> attribute values, or empty tags are rendered one way or another).
>
> : :
> > if it's possible to tell XslTransform to use the shortened notation?
>
> An XmlTextWriter can be wrapped around the output from
> XslTransform's Transform( ) method. This XmlTextWriter
> can intercept calls to the WriteFullEndElement( ) method,
> which XslTransform uses, and replace them with calls to
> WriteEndElement( ). WriteEndElement( ) will produce the
> shortened end tag when the element has no content.
>
> Here is the code,
>
> - - - XmlTextWriterEE.cs (complete)
> using System;
> using System.IO;
> using System.Xml;
>
> /// <summary>
> /// Wrapper that forces shortened empty element end tags to
> /// be rendered when possible.
> /// </summary>
> public class XmlTextWriterEE : XmlTextWriter
> {
> public XmlTextWriterEE( TextWriter sink) : base( sink) {;}
> public override void WriteFullEndElement() {
> base.WriteEndElement();
> }
> }
> - - -
>
> The way this might work with an XslTransform, named transformerObj,
> would be to wrap some TextWriter (in this example, I wrap the Console
> output stream, i.e., stdout).
>
> transformerObj.Transform( xmlDoc.CreateNavigator,
> null, new XmlTextWriterEE( Console.Out) );
>
> The XmlTextWriterEE silently intercepts calls that instruct it to write
> a full end tag (for instance, to be more compatible with HTML) and
> redirects them to the method that'll write out a shortened end tag
> for empty elements.
>
>
> Derek Harmon
>
>
