There is no problem in the XSLT transformation using the .NET XslTransform 
class. I checked this using the nXslt.exe command line utility and the 
following transformation, applied on your provided source.xml:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:vendor="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
 exclude-result-prefixes="vendor"
 >

  <xsl:import href="randomList.xsl"/>

  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">

    RandomizeList:
    <xsl:call-template name="randomizeList">
      <xsl:with-param name="pList" select="/*/*/*"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When applied using nXslt.exe on your provided source.xml:

<Lists>
 <List>
  <Item>Item 1</Item>
 </List>
 <List>
  <Item>Item 2</Item>
 </List>
 <List>
  <Item>Item 3</Item>
 </List>
 <List>
  <Item>Item 4</Item>
 </List>
 <List>
  <Item>Item 5</Item>
 </List>
 <List>
  <Item>Item 6</Item>
 </List>
 <List>
  <Item>Item 7</Item>
 </List>
</Lists>

the result is:

.NET XSLT command line utility, version 1.5 build 1860
(c) 2004 Oleg Tkachenko, http://www.tkachenko.com/dotnet/nxslt.html
Running under .NET 1.1.4322.2032

Source document load time:        11.512 milliseconds
Stylesheet load/compile time:     15.943 milliseconds
Stylesheet execution time:        22.961 milliseconds



    RandomizeList:
    <el>Item 2</el><el>Item 7</el><el>Item 1</el><el>Item 6</el><el>Item 
5</el><el>Item 3</el><el>Item 4</el>

Therefore, the problem lies in your VB.NET code (most of which you haven't 
shown) and the way you're attempting to use a .NET object (did you register 
it as a COM object?) in the script of your html page.


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.


<rmgalante@y...> wrote in message 
news:1138901429.074736.290850@g......
> Hello,
>
> I have a VB.Net component that uses the XslTransform object. I am using
> the FXSL randomizeList function in my XSL template. When I transform
> the XML in the VB.Net component, my system hangs. When I load the XML
> in a browser with a reference to the XSL template, it works fine.
>
> Here is my XML:
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <Lists>
> <List><Item>Item 1</Item></List>
> <List><Item>Item 2</Item></List>
> <List><Item>Item 3</Item></List>
> <List><Item>Item 4</Item></List>
> <List><Item>Item 5</Item></List>
> <List><Item>Item 6</Item></List>
> <List><Item>Item 7</Item></List>
> </Lists>
>
> Here is my XSL:
> <xsl:stylesheet version = "1.0"
>       xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>       xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
>       exclude-result-prefixes = "xsl" >
>
> <xsl:import href = "randomList.xsl" />
>
> <xsl:output method = "html" />
>
> <xsl:template match = "/" >
> <xsl:variable name="vRandFunc">
> <xsl:call-template name="randomizeList">
> <xsl:with-param name="pList" select="/Lists/List/Item" />
> <xsl:with-param name="pSeed" select="32768" />
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> <table>
> <xsl:for-each select="msxsl:node-set($vRandFunc)/*">
> <tr>
> <td><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
> </tr>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Here is my VB.Net code snippet:
>                ' Create the XslTransform and load the stylesheet.
>                Dim xslt As XslTransform = New XslTransform
>                xslt.Load(sXslTemplateFile)
>
>                ' Create an XsltArgumentList.
>                Dim xslArg As XsltArgumentList = New XsltArgumentList
>                ' Add parameters
>                xslArg.AddParam("firstelement", "",
> iElement.ToString())
>                xslArg.AddParam("elementsperpage", "",
> m_iElementsPerPage.ToString())
>
>                'Create an XmlTextWriter to handle the output, but put
> it in a string.
>                Dim sb As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder
>                Dim sw As StringWriter = New StringWriter(sb)
>                Dim xw As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter(sw)
>
>                'Transform the file.
>                xslt.Transform(m_xmlDom.CreateNavigator(), xslArg, xw,
> Nothing)
>                'Get the output
>                RenderPage = sb.ToString()
>
> When I execute this code, my system hangs and I cannot kill the
> application, which is a browser in this case. I load my .Net component
> as an object in an HTML page in a browser, and inject the results in
> RenderPage to a div tag.
>
> All of my other XSL templates work, but they are not using the FXSL
> randomizeList function.
>
> Anyone have any ideas, alternatives, etc.?
>
> Rob
>