Visual-studio – XSLT Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008

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I have an XML file which in addition to it's standard XML schema allows the use of XSLT.

I am including the correct namespace for XSLT (xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform") however I am not receiving Intellisense for XSLT when I start typing xsl: tags.

Is it possible to turn this on? When I edit XSLT files it works absolutely fine.

Best Answer

The Xml editor does support the standard xsl intellisense but it will strictly apply the schema. Hence you first need to enter a <xsl:stylesheet> and start adding children to it before you will see any xsl options. This is because all other other xsl elements need be children of either the xsl:stylesheet element or some other xsl element.

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You need to ensure your page is served with the correct HTTP Content-Type header value in this case: text/xml, possible in PHP using the header function:

header('Content-type: text/xml');
echo $xmlStr;

*thanks to meder who lead me in the right direction for this.

Also In Chrome and Safari an error still occurs while applying the XSLT because of the above doctype-public value:

<xsl:output 
method='xml' 
indent='yes'
doctype-public='"-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd"'/>;

It should be:

<xsl:output 
  method="xml"
  indent="yes"
  doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
  doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd"/>

The doctype-public attribute should not even be looked at if doctype-system is not specfied according to the spec.

*thanks to LarsH for pointing out doctype-system should be in a separate value.

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