how to use xslt 2.0 in visual studio 2010

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Saravanan picture Saravanan · Jun 26, 2012 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

I am using xslt 2.0 for transforming one xml format to another xml format.But Visual Studio 2010 supports only xslt1.0.

So, I referred the stackoverflow link and followed the procedure they said.But it did not working for me...

http://zeetalks.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/vs2010-adding-xslt-to-visual-studio-2010/

XSLT 2.0 intellisense in Visual Studio 2010 - Adding a schema?

When i opening my xslt 2.0 xsl file in VS-2010 then it raised following 5 Errors.They are...

  1. xpath-default-namespace is not yet implemented
  2. xsl:function is not yet implemented
  3. xsl:param/@as is not yet implemented
  4. xsl:for-each-group is not yet implemented
  5. xsl:sequence is not yet implemetented

Thanks for your cooperation... I found a link from codeproject. for use xslt2.0 in .net framework.Now i am looking for a good xslt IDE for my development. Once again thanks to all...

Answer

Dimitre Novatchev picture Dimitre Novatchev · Jun 26, 2012

You can add XSLT 2.0 intellisence to Visual Studio, as described in the provided links.

However, Visual Studio (from 2005 up) is tightly integrated with the standard .NET XSLT 1.0 processor XslCompiledTransform -- and the Visual Studio XSLT Debugger and execution subsystem only works with this XSLT processor.

As for Altova's VS Integrated Package, I have never used it and wouldn't be surprized that in the past it was working as described, but stopped working after one of the VS 2010 updates / service packs. My guess is that you haven't bought/installed this package.

I would recommend using an XSLT IDE that is especially designed to support XSLT 2.0 -- one such tool is oXygen and there are a number of others people have been using, such as Stylus Studio.

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