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<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>

File: Default.aspx.vb

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath
Imports System.Xml.Xsl

Partial Class _Default
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
           Handles Me.Load
        Response.ContentType = "text/xml"

        Dim xsltFile As String = Path.Combine(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath, _
            "Data.xsl")
        Dim xmlFile As String = Path.Combine(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath, "Data.xml")

        Dim xslt As New XslCompiledTransform() 'Pass in true to enable XSLT Debugging
        xslt.Load(xsltFile)

        Dim doc As New XPathDocument(xmlFile)
        xslt.Transform(doc, New XmlTextWriter(Response.Output))
    End Sub
End Class

File: Data.xml

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<bookstore xmlns="http://example.books.com"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <book genre="A" 
          publicationdate="1981" 
          ISBN="1-11111-11-0">
        <title>title 1</title>
        <author>
            <first-name>A</first-name>
            <last-name>B</last-name>
        </author>
        <price>8</price>
    </book>
    <book genre="B" 
          publicationdate="1999" 
          ISBN="0-222-22222-2">
        <title>title 2</title>
        <author>
            <first-name>C</first-name>
            <last-name>D</last-name>
        </author>
        <price>11.99</price>
    </book>
</bookstore>


File: Data.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:element name="Authors">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="//book"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="book">
        <xsl:element name="Author">
            <xsl:value-of select="author/first-name"/>
            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="author/last-name"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>