I basically went around the problem by loading the XSL as an XML document in 
.NET, use the DOM to change the <xsl:if>'s test attribute, then pass this 
modified XSL "document" to the transform function.

Alex.

"Alex" <hfamili@y...> wrote in message 
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> This will sound very much like a VS2005 feature and it is somewhat that 
> way except I am having to use .net framework 1.1.  Having said that here 
> is what I am trying to do: Use an XML file (and associated XSLT) to 
> generate the menu for a page - similar to VS2005 site map feature. Here is 
> the XML:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>
> <tossmenu>
>
> <menu title="Human Resources" modules="1,2,6" url="#">
>
> <menu title="Holiday Schedule" modules="6" 
> url="holidayschedule.aspx"></menu>
>
> <menu title="Employee Handbook" modules="6" url="emphandbook.aspx"></menu>
>
> <menu title="Safety Program" modules="6" 
> url="safetyhandb&#0;ok.aspx"></menu>
>
> <menu title="Admin" modules="1,2" url="#">
>
> <menu title="New Employee" modules="1,2" url="emp_new.aspx"></menu>
>
> <menu title="Employee List" modules="1,2" url="adm_emp_view.aspx"></menu>
>
> </menu>
>
> </menu>
>
> </tossmenu>
>
> And here is the XSLT:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:output indent="yes" method="html"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/tossmenu">
>
> <DIV id="menu">
>
> <UL>
>
> <LI>
>
> <UL>
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="menu"/>
>
> </UL>
>
> </LI>
>
> </UL>
>
> </DIV>
>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="menu">
>
> <LI>
>
> <A><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of 
> select="@url"/></xsl:attribute>
>
> <xsl:if test="child::node()">
>
> <IMG src="images/popup.gif" border="0"/>
>
> </xsl:if>
>
> &#160;<xsl:value-of select="@title"/></A>
>
> <xsl:if test="child::node()">
>
> <UL>
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="menu"/>
>
> </UL>
>
> </xsl:if>
>
> </LI>
>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> This works, but now I need to do some filtering.  The issue is that I need 
> to dynamically output menu nodes depending on which modules they belong 
> to - again very similar to the roles attribute in the .net 2.0 site map 
> feature.
>
> My .net code loads the XML and XSLT objects and performs the transform. 
> Before doing the transform I would like to pass the set of authorized 
> module numbers to the XSLT transformer (perhaps as xsltargs) and then the 
> XSLT simply outputs only those nodes that have the module numbers listed 
> in their modules attribute (as a comma separated list of numbers).
>
> Here is the .net code:
>
>
>
> Dim oDoc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument
>
> oDoc.Load(context.Server.MapPath("includes/menu.xml"))
>
> ' Load the XSLT transformer and inject modules
>
> Dim oXSLTransform As XslTransform = New XslTransform
>
> oXSLTransform.Load(Server.MapPath("includes/menu.xslt"))
>
> Dim xsltOut As System.IO.TextWriter
>
> xsltOut = New System.IO.StringWriter
>
> Dim writer As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter(xsltOut)
>
> writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented
>
> writer.Indentation = 4
>
> Dim resolver As New XmlUrlResolver
>
> oXSLTransform.Transform(oDoc, Nothing, writer, resolver)
>
> dim outputStr as string = xsltOut.toString()
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alex.
>
>