Matt wrote:
> I have developed a program that allows a user to generate a customized
> HTML listing of search results of nearby locations (restaurants for
> example) using XSL templates. I've implemented this using ASP.Net.
> 
> I'd like to create an extension (I think that what it is) that allows
> me to do something like this:
> 
> <custom:map-link target="_blank">Map This Location</custom:map-link>
> 
> This would result in the appropriate HTML to create a link to map the
> current location (the current location is the location in the context
> of the XML document) like so:
> 
> <a href="http://www.mapsite.com?
> address=123+Main&City=Dallas&ZipCode=75114" target="_blank">Map This
> Location</a>
> 
> I haven't seen many examples of how to do this on the web. Pehaps I'm
> searching for the wrong keywords. I don't know if XSL can do this or
> if it is an extension to the parser, in which case it would be the XSL/
> XML parser in .Net.

I don't think the XSLT processors (XslTransform for .NET 1.x, 
XslCompiledTransform for .NET 2.0 and later) in .NET support extension 
elements so putting <custom:map-link target="_blank">Map This 
Location</custom:map-link> as an extension element into an XSLT 
stylesheet and process it is not possible.
What the XSLT processors supports are extension functions implemented in 
C# or VB.NET or JScript.NET and extension objects. For the above it 
might suffice to have a global stylesheet parameter and have the ASP.NET 
page set that parameter as needed.


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	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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