What are some helpful resources for learning how to convert data in an XML to fill in a HTML form through ASP.NET C#?
HiUsing CodeFirst, we design XML and XSLT. XML file contains data and XSLT file contains how XML data will display in HTML design. Next, we create custom HTML helper to call the method which transforms XML data with XSLT content and generates HTML content.XMLThe following XML content will we use in our example. It contains countries with no. of medals won in Rio 2022 Olympic.?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?RioMedalsCountry Name="America" Gold="43" Silver="37" Bronze="36"/CountryCountry Name="GreatBritain" Gold="27" Silver="22" Bronze="17"/CountryCountry Name="China" Gold="26" Silver="18" Bronze="26"/CountryCountry Name="Russia" Gold="17" Silver="17" Bronze="19"/CountryCountry Name="India" Gold="1" Silver="1" Bronze="1"/Country/RioMedalsXSLTThe Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) language is for transforming XML documents into XHTML documents or to other XML documents. Data transformation means parsing an input XML document into a tree of nodes and then converting the source tree into a result tree. Transformation is about data exchange. More on XSLT, visit here.In below XSLT code, it creates a table and it searches country in XML content, then display name, no of medals in Gold, Silver, Bronze in rows based on countries.xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Trans..." xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"xsl:template match="/*"table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1"tr style="color: green,"thCountry/ththGold/ththSilver/ththBronze/th/trxsl:for-each select="Country"tr style="text-align: center,"tdxsl:value-of select="@Name"/xsl:value-of/tdtdxsl:value-of select="@Gold"/xsl:value-of/tdtdxsl:value-of select="@Silver"/xsl:value-of/tdtdxsl:value-of select="@Bronze"/xsl:value-of/td/tr/xsl:for-each/table/xsl:template/xsl:stylesheetControllerIn Controller(HomeController.cs), add Index as an action. It retrieves contents from XML file and bind to ViewBag object.public ActionResult Index {string medalsXML = http://System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("Data/Medals.xml")),ViewBag.Medals = medalsXML,return View ,}ViewWe need to create custom HTML helper to view the XML content as HTML. Custom helper can be created in two ways:Step 1: Using extension method HTMLHelper classCreate a static class called CustomHTMLHelper and create a static method RenderXml which receives two parameters. One is XML content and second one is xslt file path. RenderXml is an extension method which calls from View and it returns data as HtmlString type.public static class CustomHTMLHelper{/// summary/// Applies an XSL transformation to an XML document/// /summary/// param name="helper"/param/// param name="xml"/param/// param name="xsltPath"/param/// returns/returnspublic static HtmlString RenderXml(this HtmlHelper helper, string xml, string xsltPath){XsltArgumentList args = new XsltArgumentList ,// Create XslCompiledTransform object to loads and compile XSLT file.XslCompiledTransform tranformObj = new XslCompiledTransform ,tranformObj.Load(xsltPath),// Create XMLReaderSetting object to assign DtdProcessing, Validation typeXmlReaderSettings xmlSettings = new XmlReaderSettings ,xmlSettings.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Parse,xmlSettings.ValidationType = ValidationType.DTD,// Create XMLReader object to Transform xml value with XSLT settingusing (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xml), xmlSettings)){StringWriter writer = new StringWriter ,tranformObj.Transform(reader, args, writer),// Generate HTML string from StringWriterHtmlString htmlString = new HtmlString(writer.ToString ),return htmlString,}}}Add the below tag to Web.Config namespace section so it will available in all View pages.add namespace=”CustomHTMLHelper” /Now, you can call extension method (RenderXml ) with passing xml content and xslt file path.@Html.RenderXml(ViewBag.Medals as string, Server.MapPath("Data/Medals.xslt"))Step 2: Using Static methodCreate static class and add static method RenderXMLData with parameters xml content and xslt file path. The logic is the same as above extension Helper class.public static HtmlString RenderXMLData(string xml, string xsltPath){XsltArgumentList args = new XsltArgumentList ,// Create XslCompiledTransform object to loads and compile XSLT file.XslCompiledTransform tranformObj = new XslCompiledTransform ,tranformObj.Load(xsltPath),// Create XMLReaderSetting object to assign DtdProcessing, Validation typeXmlReaderSettings xmlSettings = new XmlReaderSettings ,xmlSettings.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Parse,xmlSettings.ValidationType = ValidationType.DTD,// Create XMLReader object to Transform xml value with XSLT settingusing (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xml), xmlSettings)){StringWriter writer = new StringWriter ,tranformObj.Transform(reader, args, writer),// Generate HTML string from StringWriterHtmlString htmlString = new HtmlString(writer.ToString ),return htmlString,}}Add the below tag to Web.Config namespace section as we did before for Extension Method approach.add namespace=”CustomHTMLHelper” /Now, you can call extension method (RenderXMLData ) with passing xml content and xslt file path.@CustomHTMLHelper.RenderXMLData(ViewBag.Medals as string, Server.MapPath("Data/Medals.xslt"))After running the application, it shows this image(Figure 1) as output.