Re: Help - how to preserve XML Structure using C++ XSL Transform?

From:
"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@newsgroup.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.xml.msxml-webrelease,microsoft.public.xml,comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:43:41 -0000
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"Nanker" <nanker@sacbeemail.com> wrote in message
news:954d338f-8a82-4099-a318-abe11077b2b0@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

I have the following XML:

  <PrivateXML App="MyApp">
    <Version version_no="1.0.0.0" version_date="Monday, March 26,
2007"/>
    <PrivateDevices>
      <PrivateDevice DeviceID="1" Model="">
        <Speaker SpeakerID="0" name="MySpeaker"/>
      </PrivateDevice>
    </PrivateDevices>
  </PrivateXML>

and the following XSL:

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

    <xsl:output media-type="text/xml" method="xml" encoding="utf-8"
indent="yes"/>

    <!-- Identity Transform -->
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
      </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <!-- Find the Version element and add the theName attribute -->
    <xsl:template match="Version">
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:attribute name="theName">MyName</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|*"/>
      </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>

Using this pair with some C# transform applications, my results are
the following (which is what I'm looking for):

  <PrivateXML App="MyApp">
    <Version theName="MyName" version_no="1.0.0.0"
version_date="Monday, March 26, 2007" />
    <PrivateDevices>
      <PrivateDevice DeviceID="1" Model="">
        <Speaker SpeakerID="0" name="MySpeaker" />
      </PrivateDevice>
    </PrivateDevices>
  </PrivateXML>

Using the following Visual C++ method:

  bool PerformXslTransform(_bstr_t xmlSource, const bool
isSourceAFile,
            IXSLProcessorPtr pProcessor, _bstr_t* transformedResult)
  {
    // Initialize all local variables
    void *output = NULL;
    XML2DocumentPtr pXml = NULL;
    IStream *pOutStream;
    bool success=false;

    // load source XML and the XSL file
    try
    {
      // Load the XML differently whether specified as a file or raw
XML
      if(isSourceAFile)
      {
        pXml = pdocCreateFromUrl(xmlSource);
      }
      else
      {
        pXml = pdocCreateFromString(xmlSource);
      }

      // prepare Stream object to store results of transformation
      CreateStreamOnHGlobal(NULL,TRUE,&pOutStream);
      pProcessor->put_output(_variant_t(pOutStream));

      // Attach to processor XML to transform, and do the
transoformation
      pProcessor->put_input(_variant_t((IUnknown*)pXml));
      pProcessor->transform();

      //Get results of transformation
      HGLOBAL hg = NULL;
      pOutStream->Write((void const*)"\0",1,0);
      GetHGlobalFromStream(pOutStream,&hg);
      output = GlobalLock(hg);
      *transformedResult = (const char*)output;
      GlobalUnlock(hg);

      success = true;
    }
    catch(...)
    {
    }

    //release these components
    if(pXml != NULL)
    {
      pXml.Release();
    }

    return success;
  }

My results are instead the following:

  <PrivateXML App="MyApp">
    <Version theName="MyName" version_no="1.0.0.0"
version_date="Monday, March 26, 2007">
    </Version>
    <PrivateDevices>
      <PrivateDevice DeviceID="1" Model="">
        <Speaker SpeakerID="0" name="MySpeaker">
        </Speaker>
      </PrivateDevice>
    </PrivateDevices>
  </PrivateXML>

I realize that these are equivalent, but these files in my environment
will possibly end up being edited by support teams, and I would rather
preserve the format:

 <Speaker SpeakerID="0" name="MySpeaker"/>

instead of changing it to:

 <Speaker SpeakerID="0" name="MySpeaker">
 </Speaker>

Since the XSL provides the desired results using C#, I'm hoping that
there is something I'm missing with my C++ code to preserve the
element structure.

Can someone please provide some guidance as to how I can preserve this
structure using C++?

Thanks in advance

Possibly setting to preserveWhitespace to true/false explicitly on the
document instance would help.

--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name

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