Transforming DocBook XML Contents into HTML in C#

From my previous article, I talked on generating a DocBook  xml in C#. When you have a set of DocBook xmls, you need to transform it to a presentation format to make those book data readable. Here we will look on how to transform DocBook xml files into html.
One of main advantages pf DocBook, is that DocBook xml content files can be converted to many formats by xsl stylesheets transformations. Its easy as writing few code lines.

string xslMarkup = @"<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform' version='1.0'>
    <xsl:template match='/Parent'>
        <Root>
            <C1>
            <xsl:value-of select='Child1'/>
            </C1>
            <C2>
            <xsl:value-of select='Child2'/>
            </C2>
        </Root>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>";
XDocument xmlTree = new XDocument(
    new XElement("Parent",
        new XElement("Child1", "Child1 data"),
        new XElement("Child2", "Child2 data")
    )
);
             
//The output xml
XDocument newTree = new XDocument();
using (XmlWriter writer = newTree.CreateWriter())
{
    // Load the style sheet.
    XslCompiledTransform xslt = new XslCompiledTransform();
    xslt.Load(XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xslMarkup)));
    // Execute the transform and output the results to a writer.
    xslt.Transform(xmlTree.CreateReader(), writer);
}


You can find DocBook xsl stylesheets distribution from http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets
Also have a look on list of DocBook tools available at http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookTools