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When is it beneficial to use XSLT transformations rather than transforming an XML document object using custom iterations and modeling the data into a serializable model and vice versa? Can I have a set of custom serializable collection classes to generate an XML from a source of raw XML, or I can have an XSLT file to transform the raw XML into the desired schema? How do I decide when to use what?
QUESTION POSED ON: 24 JAN 2005
QUESTION ANSWERED BY: Daniel Cazzulino
The critical point here is how similar your input XML is to your model classes. If you control the former, then you don't need XSLT at all. If you don't, but you want to keep the model the way you want and not the way the XSD.EXE tool thinks you want it, based on the schema for the input document, then you have no choice but to use XSLT. Doing transformations by hand with custom iterations is a maintenance nightmare. If the XML is only going out from your model, you can also leverage XSLT to transform it to something your customer wants, while keeping your model clean.
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