"cmay" <cmay@w...> wrote in message 
news:1154359760.202604.11360@i......
>I just tried to use an XSLT 2.0 element: Character-Map, in VS.Net
> 2005's xml/xslt editor and it didn't seem to like it.
>
> The exact same line worked just fine in XMLSpy">XMLSpy.
>
> Does VS.Net 2005 (editor) not support XSLT 2.0?


Yes, it does (speaking just about the XML Editor) -- you have to drop the 
XML Schema definition file for XSLT 2.0 in the XML\Schemas folder also known 
as %VsInstallDir%/xml/schemas/ (be sure to use a different name from 
xslt.xsd not to overrride the schema for XSLT 1.0) and in the catalog.xml 
file in the same folder associate it to another extension -- I use "xsl2".

The entry for xslt2.0 in my catalog.xml file is:

 <Association extension="xsl2" 
schema="%VsInstallDir%/xml/schemas/schema-for-xslt20.xsd" />

In the w3 schema for xslt 2.0 be sure to comment out the xs:import 
statements for namespaces and for xml-schema.

Then just start using your VS2005 XML Editor with XSLT 2.0 -- you get all 
intellisense, such as element names, attribute names and attribute values 
prompting, as well as dynamic syntax error notifications.

Do enjoy!

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.