Comments on: ASP.NET MVC XSLT IViewEngine

By: Matt Ross

Matt Ross — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:46:36 +0000

… of course, Steven Sanderson describes exactly this in his book (page 358)

By: Matt Ross

Matt Ross — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:36:47 +0000

I would just like to second Odhran’s comment about XSLT being better. I think the current “bee-sting” views are so messy and XSL is much more elegant and is IMO the natural choice for Views in MVC.
Great to see others exploring this route.

By: Odhran McConnell

Odhran McConnell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:11:12 +0000

Ah, ignore my previous post … System.Web.Abstractions was needed too.

Cheers!

By: Odhran McConnell

Odhran McConnell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:08:57 +0000

I like the idea and want to make use of it, simply because I think Xslt is a much better templating language than the Microsoft MVC views (in their current state).

Unfortunately, I’m having some issues with implementation. I’m trying to put these classes into a separate DLL. I’ve referenced System.Web.Mvc, System.Xml.Serialization and System.Xml. The project isn’t being built on this line:

viewContext.HttpContext.Response.ContentType = “text/xml”;

It’s telling me that Response isn’t a part of HttpContextBase (i.e. ViewContext.HttpContext). The same happens where it tries to get viewContext.HttpContext.Server. What am I missing?

Thanks.

Odhran.

By: Daniel Cole

Daniel Cole — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:23:55 +0000

Interesting idea. this could be useful.

By: Chris Hampson

Chris Hampson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:16:50 +0000

It does, try it out.

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:53:13 +0000

I don’t think that would work.