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  masjj

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  XSL Error: Root Element Is Missing

  Aug 22, 2003 12:03 PM|LINK

  I have a string that contains the following XSL:

  #
  #
  #

  When loading it into a XPathDocumet object I get an error stating the the root element is missing;

  Dim objXSLStringReader As StringReader = New StringReader(strXSLStyleSheet)
  Dim XSLXPathDoc As New XPathDocument(objXSLStringReader)
  

  Not sure what te error is?
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  joteke

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  Re: XSL Error: Root Element Is Missing

  Aug 22, 2003 04:55 PM|LINK

  I tested the file file XML Spy and it is well formed. In fact this would indicate like the XSLT would not be loaded from the file or where it is located (String variable?) at all. Are you sure it is coming to the StringReader as expected? Note also that StringReader internally uses UTF-16 encoding and I have seen it causing similar problems and sometime changing fileEncoding in in web.config has helped but that has been with scenarios when XML/XSLT is loaded from file. If you change it to load the XSLT from strting into XmlDocument, does that do any difference? Like:

  Dim objDoc As New XmlDocument()
  objDoc.LoadXml(strXSLStyleSheet)

  You can use XmlDocument in the transformation like XPathDocument (it is just bit slower) but try that does it change anything.
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  Teemu Keiski
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