XML XSL Transform From Stream

Question

Hi I have a memory stream in which I use XMLTextWriter to write out some XML. What I want to do is transform this XML using the XSL.transform feature. The thing is I don't want to create a temp. XML file, I want to somehow use the stream to Transform it into the XSL. Thank you for any suggestions.

Answer 1

Just use an XmlReader and pass it to the Transform method. You'll need to seek to the start of the stream first.

  stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
  XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(stream, settings);
  XslCompiledTransform transform = new XslCompiledTransform();
  transform.Load(...load your transform...);
  transform.Transform(reader, resultsWriter);

I've obviously removed certain elements here to simplify the code, but you should get the idea.