hi,

can anyone please point me to a simple VB.Net example
of how i can do an xslt transform ?

i have a .aspx web page that needs to create a letter for
subsequent printing. i am using a xslt style document which
holds the letter text plus style details of my xml data.

i have generated an xml data file of my letter details record.

all i need now is how to do the transform in vb.net and send it
to a printer. any good examples or recommended books ?

cheers.

Check out this link..Hope this helps you
http://www.asp101.com/articles/jayram/xslt/default.asp

Let me give you the code snippet for transforming a simple VB.NET code. But I am not sure whether this is what you are looking for. Do write back if you are looking for something else.

Namespace declarations:
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.Xsl

Code to transform:

Dim xslt As New XslTransform()

Try
  xslt.Load("transform.xslt")
  xslt.Transform("source.xml","result.xml")
Catch ex As Xsl.XsltException
  Console.WriteLine("transform failed"
Catch ex As Exception
  Console.WriteLine(ex.Message & " " & ex.StackTrace
End Try

Note that i have used the basic transformation. Actually there are 18 odd overloaded transform methods.

Best Regards
Vadivel

MVP ASP/ASP.NET
http://vadivel.thinkingms.com