The saxon-resources download includes sample C# code for invoking Saxon on
.NET (see the samples/cs directory). It shouldn't be very difficult to
translate this to VB - it involves the same calls, just trivially-different
surface syntax.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronnie Royston [mailto:rhroyston@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 21 August 2008 17:25
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Calling Saxon Transform from .NET API
> 
> Saxon documentation refers to a .NET API, but I don't have 
> the skills to comprehend and articulate the corresponding VB 
> code.  Any help from this esteemed group of masters would be 
> appreciated.
> 
> I normally run from the command line, transform knowledge.xml 
> testxsl.xsl customer="Mr. Customer" project="Hello World".  
> The output doc is defined in the stylesheet.  I've figured 
> out how to use the ShellExecute WinAPI function to run a .bat 
> file to do a command-line transformation, but that's a crappy 
> work-around that I would be ashamed to publish.
> 
> Using VB, I need to transform with the Saxon Engine handing 2 
> parameters, "customer" and "project".  Determining if Saxon 
> is installed on machine using VB is another battle for another day...
> 
> Can someone send me a sample VB subroutine (code) that would 
> transform using SaxonB?
> 
> I know it's not exactly a pure XSLT question, but I know 
> there's talented programmers here that could do this is about 
> 30 seconds...
> So, pardon the slightly off topicness of the post, and thank you.
> 
> - Ronnie Royston