Apply an XSL transformation and show the result in a web control

For an application we build for a customer, a new feature had to be added. The application calls a 3th party web service and logs all XML messages for auditing purposes.

Now the users were asking for an easy way to see these XML messages in a more readable format, preferably nicely integrated into the application. This is a perfect fit for XSL transformations, so we decided to integrate a WebBrowser control into our application and load the XMLs after applying the XSL transformation.

	var message = @"c:\message.xml";
	var xslTransformation = @"c:\messagetransformation.xsl";
	var xslDocument = new XslCompiledTransform();
	xslDocument.Load(xslTransformation);
	var stringWriter = new StringWriter();
	var xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
	xslDocument.Transform(message, xmlWriter);
	//Load the transformed output in a WPF WebBrowser control
	webBrowser.NavigateToString(stringWriter.ToString());

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