Asp+xml+mssql

[nephros]

I need to complete a task, although I am not quite sure how?

The task is to create a very unusual search system for a car rental site.

There is a database of cars that the rental company possesses, and when the user specifies the rental dates - the list of available cars should be presented to the user. But the thing is that they should be presented in the XML format using XSLT transformation.

The question is:
How to transform database search results into a structured XML document and present it on an ASP.NET webform?

All suggestions are welcome, if you need some more specific info, feel free to ask.

Thank you!

[chmonalisa]

hey buddy,

try this

open a sqlcommand object and execute your search query.
take those results in a dataadapter and assign to a dataset
then load the dataset to an xmlfile. you can do that. it's easy.
Finally using response.binarywrite u can flush the xml content to your browser.

thx
chaitanya

[MattEvans]

You shouldn't send an XML file with a linked transform directive directly to the user's browser. Not all browsers support client-side XSL transformations.

You should look for a server-side XSL processor, perform the transformation at the server end, and send (X)HTML.

There should be an ASP-ready XSL processor on Windows Servers based on MSXML (www.perfectxml.com/articles/xml/XSLTInMSXML.asp . See if it's on your server, if not, ask for/install it.

That's the same processor used by MSIE for client-side transforms; doing the process at your server though, means that you can serve to browsers other than MSIE and FF.

[nephros]

Thanks to everyone for the replies ! :)