I think that's probably best given the circumstances.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name

"Mr Major Thorburn" <MrMajorThorburn@d...> wrote in 
message news:A3C6CDEF-C78B-4855-AC84-02DA33A56670@m......
> Joe, thanks for that.
> I have given up on using XSLT and instead knocked up a small C# utility 
> that
> reads XML and generates basic aspx files for form view and create new 
> form.
> Regards, Major.
>
> "Joe Fawcett" wrote:
>
>> "Mr Major Thorburn" <MrMajorThorburn@d...> wrote in
>> message news:E093965D-09B5-4BD5-ACE4-6772CA867178@m......
>> >I have some forms whose structure is captured in schemas and for which I
>> >have
>> > generated xml samples.
>> > I need to develop two types of aspx web pages, one for viewing the data
>> > the
>> > other for editing or entering the data. I was thinking I may be able to
>> > use
>> > XSLT but seem to have come across a few restrictions and have been
>> > struggling
>> > to make any progress.
>> >
>> > Has anyone does this before?
>> >
>> > If so are you able to let me have a copy of what you did?
>> >
>> > Otherwise I will carry on through the learning curve so will be back 
>> > here
>> > for help.
>> >
>> > Regards, Major.
>> > p.s. Major is my Christian name ;-)
>>
>> It's very awkward, aspx are not XML. The best I have managed is to create 
>> an
>> intermediate file that is then transformed to aspx. You can use the 
>> virtual
>> path provider in asp.net to help with this.
>> I have petitioned Micrsoft to provide an alternative format for aspx, 
>> e.g.
>> <% %> can be written as <asp:script></asp:script> etc.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
>> http://joe.fawcett.name
>>
>>
>>
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