Specifies the file name of an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) file (.xsl) that defines an XSLT transformation to be performed on the XML data managed by the XmlDataSource control.
(in System.Web.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Overridable Property TransformFile As String
Dim instance As XmlDataSource
Dim value As String
value = instance.TransformFile
instance.TransformFile = value
public virtual string TransformFile { get; set; }
public:
virtual property String^ TransformFile {
String^ get ();
void set (String^ value);
}
public function get TransformFile () : String
public function set TransformFile (value : String)
<asp:XmlDataSource TransformFile="String" />
Property Value
Type:
System..::.StringThe absolute physical path or relative path of the XSL style sheet file that defines an XML transformation to be performed on the data contained in the Data or DataFile properties. The default value is String..::.Empty.
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 and a TreeView control to display transformed XML data on a Web form. The transformation is performed using the style sheet indicated by the TransformFile property. You can optionally supply transformation arguments for the style sheet using an XsltArgumentList. For more information, see the TransformArgumentList property.
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<!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>ASP.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:xmldatasource
id="XmlDataSource1"
runat="server"
datafile="bookstore.xml"
transformfile="bookstore.xsl"/>
<!- TreeView uses hierachical data, so the
XmlDataSource uses an XmlHierarchicalDataSourceView
when a TreeView is bound to it. -->
<asp:treeview
id="TreeView1"
runat="server"
datasourceid="XmlDataSource1">
<databindings>
<asp:treenodebinding depth="1" datamember="genre"
textfield="name" valuefield="name"/>
<asp:treenodebinding depth="2" datamember="book"
textfield="title" valuefield="ISBN"/>
<asp:treenodebinding depth="3" datamember="chapter"
textfield="name" valuefield="num"/>
</databindings>
</asp:treeview>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!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>ASP.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:XmlDataSource
id="XmlDataSource1"
runat="server"
datafile="bookstore.xml"
transformfile="bookstore.xsl"/>
<!- TreeView uses hierachical data, so the
XmlDataSource uses an XmlHierarchicalDataSourceView
when a TreeView is bound to it. -->
<asp:treeview
id="TreeView1"
runat="server"
datasourceid="XmlDataSource1">
<databindings>
<asp:treenodebinding depth="1" datamember="genre"
textfield="name" valuefield="name"/>
<asp:treenodebinding depth="2" datamember="book"
textfield="title" valuefield="ISBN"/>
<asp:treenodebinding depth="3" datamember="chapter"
textfield="name" valuefield="num"/>
</databindings>
</asp:treeview>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The XML file in the code example has the following data:
<bookstore>
<genre name="fiction">
<book ISBN="0000000000">
<title>Secrets of Silicon Valley</title>
<price>12.95</price>
<chapters>
<chapter num="1" name="Introduction" />
<chapter num="2" name="Body" />
<chapter num="3" name="Conclusion" />
</chapters>
</book>
</genre>
<genre name="novel">
<book genre="novel" ISBN="1111111111">
<title>Straight Talk About Computers</title>
<price>24.95</price>
<chapters>
<chapter num="1" name="Introduction" />
<chapter num="2" name="Body" />
<chapter num="3" name="Conclusion" />
</chapters>
</book>
</genre>
</bookstore>
The XSL style sheet that performs the XML transformation has the following structure:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="bookstore">
<bookstore>
<xsl:apply-templates select="genre"/>
</bookstore>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="genre">
<genre>
<xsl:attribute name="name">
<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="book"/>
</genre>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="book">
<book>
<xsl:attribute name="ISBN">
<xsl:value-of select="@ISBN"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="title">
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="price">
<xsl:value-of select="price"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="chapters/chapter" />
</book>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="chapter">
<chapter>
<xsl:attribute name="num">
<xsl:value-of select="@num"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="name">
<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</chapter>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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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
Reference