[SOLVED] XML Literal with Linq statement

XML Literal with Linq statement

I am going to be performing an XSLT transformation, transforming XML to an HTML table. It's tabular data, so that's why I'm not using div's. ;)

Anyway, I need to repeat one part of the XSLT for the size of one of my collections. Here's a snippet of the code...

Dim styleSheet = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
  xmlns:rh="ReportHub"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
>
  <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:template match="rh:Report/rh:Tablix1/rh:Details_Collection">
    <xsl:variable name="alternating-row" select="position() mod 2" />
    <table class=<%= dataFormatter.formattingTableClass %>>
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="count(rh:Details)=0">
          <tr>
            <td>There are no items listed for this client</td>
          </tr>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:for-each select="rh:Details">
            <tr class=<%= dataFormatter.formattingTRClass %>>
              <xsl:variable name="mainrow-position" select="position()" />
              <xsl:for-each select="@*">
                <%= From x In dataFormatter.dataColumnSettings Select 
                  <xsl:if test="name() != 'colName'">
                    <xsl:choose>
                      <xsl:when test="$mainrow-position=1">
                        <th>
                          <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
                        </th>
                      </xsl:when>
                      <xsl:otherwise>
                        <td>
                          <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                        </td>
                      </xsl:otherwise>
                    </xsl:choose>
                  </xsl:if> 
                %>
              </xsl:for-each>
            </tr>
          </xsl:for-each>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </table>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The problem is that because the XML inside the LINQ query references the xsl namespace, I get:

Error   9   XML namespace prefix 'xsl' is not defined.

Anyone got any clever ideas?

The inner workings of the XML inside the LINQ query isn't finished, so don't worry about what that looks like.

Solution

I was a bit amazed that this was possible but then I noticed this only works in VB.NET, not C#. :-) Anyway, I took a look at MSDN to learn more about this and it's a bit of a wild guess, but I think you need to use a separate Imports statement to add those namespaces. Something like:

Imports <xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
Imports <xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
Imports <xmlns:rh="ReportHub">

It is a bit of an educated guess, though. You asked for a clever idea, this is mine.