On May 15, 6:56 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>
>         Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/


Martin,

Thanks for the info. Would you mind sending me a link to anything that
might give me more information about this? Or even if you could send
me a .net class name, that would help me get started. I can't find
anything that seams to eleborate on what you are referring to.

Thanks,
 - Matt