I have an XML document which is transformed using XSL so it appears in a browser as XHTML. However, I now want to send this document as an HTML email from an ASP.NET application. I presume that in order to do this I need to physically transform the XML into its HTML equivalent. Can anyone tell me how to do this? If I just send the XML in an email my email client tries to interpret the XML elements as HTML tags completely ignoring the XSL reference...

I would assume that you can use the Xml control to transform the XML document into the HTML and the get a string representation, which you can the give to the emailer. Tjek out the properties DocumentSource and DocumentTransform.

Let me know how it works out.

Hope it helps, Jacob.

Jacob, thank you so much. Hadn't used the XML control before. I now have an ASPX page that displays my XML as HTML so that's great. One thing though - I'm not sure how to now get this HTML as a string. My XML control has the ID submissionXml so I'm using submissionXml.DocumentSource to set the XML source and submissionXml.TransformSource to set the XSL source. However, the ToString() method only seems to write out the control type as a string. I can't find any methods of the XML control that return a string version of the XML. Advice appreciated...

I've worked it out! Thanks for your help Jacob.

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WebRequest htmlRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create("http://......");
WebResponse htmlResponse = htmlRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader htmlStream = new StreamReader(htmlResponse.GetResponseStream());
string strSubmission = htmlStream.ReadToEnd();