Gets or sets a block of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) data that defines an XSLT transformation to be performed on the XML data managed by the XmlDataSource control.
(in System.Web.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
<PersistenceModeAttribute(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)> _
<TypeConverterAttribute("System.ComponentModel.MultilineStringConverter,System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")> _
Public Overridable Property Transform As String
Dim instance As XmlDataSource
Dim value As String
value = instance.Transform
instance.Transform = value
[PersistenceModeAttribute(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)]
[TypeConverterAttribute("System.ComponentModel.MultilineStringConverter,System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")]
public virtual string Transform { get; set; }
[PersistenceModeAttribute(PersistenceMode::InnerProperty)]
[TypeConverterAttribute(L"System.ComponentModel.MultilineStringConverter,System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089")]
public:
virtual property String^ Transform {
String^ get ();
void set (String^ value);
}
public function get Transform () : String
public function set Transform (value : String)
<asp:XmlDataSource>
<Transform>String</Transform>
</asp:XmlDataSource>
In declarative scenarios, the Transform property is specified as a multiline inner property of the XmlDataSource object. An inner property is compatible with XSL style sheet data, because it enables you to format the style sheet in any way and ignore character padding issues such as padding quote characters.
If both the TransformFile and Transform properties are set, the TransformFile property takes precedence and the data in the XSL style sheet file (.xsl) is used instead of the style sheet elements specified in the Transform property. If an XPath expression is set using the XPath property, it is applied after the XML data is transformed.
If you change the value of the Transform property, the DataSourceChanged event is raised. If caching is enabled and you change the value of Transform, the cache is invalidated.
The following code example demonstrates how to use an XmlDataSource control with a templated Repeater control to display transformed XML data. The style sheet that performs the transformation is defined inline by the Transform property of the data source control.
<%@ Page %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html >
<head runat="server">
<title>Order</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:XmlDataSource
runat="server"
id="XmlDataSource1"
DataFile="order.xml" >
<Transform>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="orders">
<orders>
<xsl:apply-templates select="order"/>
</orders>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="order">
<order>
<customer>
<id>
<xsl:value-of select="customer/@id"/>
</id>
<firstname>
<xsl:value-of select="customername/firstn"/>
</firstname>
<lastname>
<xsl:value-of select="customername/lastn"/>
</lastname>
</customer>
</order>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
</Transform>
</asp:XmlDataSource>
<asp:Repeater
runat="server"
DataSourceID="XmlDataSource1">
<ItemTemplate>
<h2>Order</h2>
<table border="1px">
<tr>
<td>Customer</td>
<td style="color:Blue"><%# XPath ("//id") %></td>
<td><%# XPath ("//firstname") %></td>
<td><%# XPath ("//lastname") %></td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The XML file in the code example has the following data:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<orders>
<order>
<customer id="12345" />
<customername>
<firstn>Todd</firstn>
<lastn>Rowe</lastn>
</customername>
<transaction id="12345" />
<shipaddress>
<address1>1234 Tenth Avenue</address1>
<city>Bellevue</city>
<state>Washington</state>
<zip>98001</zip>
</shipaddress>
<summary>
<item dept="tools">screwdriver</item>
<item dept="tools">hammer</item>
<item dept="plumbing">fixture</item>
</summary>
</order>
</orders>
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98
The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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