Trinkit, Thinking Web Solutions

I really like how heaps of the new webparts in v3 and moss have an XSL editor to control their appearance.

However I often find it a bit of pain not really knowing what the XML looks like. Had a search round the web to see if I could find a way of outputing the xml.

Found this thing called xml-to-string that does exactly that.

How do you use it?

Just upload the xml-to-string.xsl file to a doc library somewhere on your site. Then you can reference it in your xsl like so:

<xsl:include href="xml-to-string.xsl" />

 

and to view the entire xml output just add the follwing line to the root template:

 

<!-- XSL transformation starts here -->
<xsl:template match="/">  

    <!-- add this line -->
    <xsl:call-template name="xml-to-string" />-->

 

    ....

 

</xsl:template>

 

sample output:

 

 

I used this in a search webpart to see if my managed properties where coming through. Turned out they were there but had just been lower cased.