Saxon, Command Line, C#, and XSL 2.0

I've been using Xalan/Xerces for command line XSL transformations for years, but I've been moving farther away from Java over the years, so I wanted something .NET compatible and I wanted something XSL 2.0 compatible. I finally switched to Saxon.

I normally use the standard XML objects in my ASP.NET apps, but I'll switch to Xalan command line tools when I need the "write" extension. I can do the same with Saxon now.

C:\Program Files\Saxon.NET>bin\Transform SaxonTest.xml SaxonTest.xsl

Here is the C# code to call an XSL transformation using Saxon. This one may seem a little odd because the code doesn't save any file since what I'm doing is splitting a large XML file into multiple small files using <xsl:result-document>.

// Create a Processor instance.
Processor p = new Processor();
// Load the source document.
XdmNode node = p.NewDocumentBuilder().Build(new Uri(file));
// Create a transformer for the stylesheet.
XsltTransformer transformer = p.NewXsltCompiler().Compile(myStream).Load();
// Set the root node of the source document to be the initial context node.
transformer.InitialContextNode = node;
// BaseOutputUri is only necessary for xsl:result-document.
transformer.BaseOutputUri = new Uri(file);
// Create a serializer.
Serializer serializer = new Serializer();
transformer.Run(serializer);

Here is the stylesheet I used to leverage the XSL 2.0 equivalent of xalan:write.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
 version="2.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
 xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"
 exclude-result-prefixes="fo xs fn">

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" name="xmlFormat"/>

  <xsl:template match="text()" />

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="//node()[@fragment='true']">
      <xsl:variable name="filename" select="concat( /gpg-book/@local-id, '/', @local-id, '.xml' )"/>
      <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="xmlFormat">
        <pcu-gpg-book>
          <xsl:copy-of select="/gpg-book/taxonomy_pcu"/>
          <xsl:copy-of select="/gpg-book/content-metadata"/>
          <xsl:copy-of select="/gpg-book/print-pub-metadata"/>
          <xsl:copy-of select="parent::node()"/>
        </pcu-gpg-book>
      </xsl:result-document>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>