Reading XSD & XSL files from embedded resources of an assembly

*The following post is on VS 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5

Say we have an assembly called "MyAssembly" which could be seen on the project settings.

Let's first start with reading anything from embedded resources:

If we have a resource, and .xml file in this case, named as "MyXmlFile.xml", the resource name for this file would be "MyAssembly.MyXmlFile.xml"

Here's the code that streams the contents of this file:

Stream xmlStream = a.GetManifestResourceStream("CRFSCommandLine.WorkOrderTransform.xsl");

Now we have a stream that we can play with, let's now just display what it has in it:

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(xmlStream);
Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd());

Now let's move on to doing validation and transform:

Here's what a validation would look like

Stream xsdStream= a.GetManifestResourceStream("MyAssembly.MySchema.xsd");
XmlSchemaSet schemas = new XmlSchemaSet();
XmlSchema x = XmlSchema.Read(schemaStream,
new ValidationEventHandler(HandleValidationEvent));
schemas.Add(x);


readerDoc.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None;

//XmlValidatingReader is obsolete with .NET 3.5, we need to use XmlReader and //appropriate XmlReaderSettings settings
XmlReaderSettings validationReaderSettings = new XmlReaderSettings();
validationReaderSettings.ValidationType = ValidationType.Schema;
validationReaderSettings.Schemas.Add(schemas);
validationReaderSettings.ValidationEventHandler += new ValidationEventHandler(HandleValidationEvent);

//docReader is the XmlReader we have for the XML document we want to validate
XmlReader newReader = XmlReader.Create(readerDoc, validationReaderSettings);

while ( newReader.Read());
newReader.Close();

This should do the trick, below is what the transformation looks like:

XmlDocument originalDoc = new XmlDocument();
originalDoc.Load(fileName);

XslCompiledTransform trans = new XslCompiledTransform(true);
trans.Load(new XmlTextReader(transformStream));


XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter("TransformOutput.xml", Encoding.Unicode);
xtw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
trans.Transform(originalDoc.CreateNavigator(), xtw);

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
trans.Transform(originalDoc.CreateNavigator(), null, sw); //sw.ToString() would be //the string output here


That's all