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Jesper Lauridsen 25 posts 84 karma points

Feb 24, 2015 @ 15:58

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Transfering xml-data to webmethod...

Hi all

I am having a problem getting some data (xmlPathNodeIterator) from my XLST-document to a c# webmethod.
How can that be done?

Let me try to explain in more details;
My XSLT document loads and display the data from an external library, which returns the data as an XPathNodeIterator (that works flawlessly).

The idea is, that when the user click a button, the data is sent to a WebMethod, which handles further processing of the data.
But I don't know how to get the XML-data from my XSLT-variable to jQuery - It seems that I only receive a string with all the data - not the XML-'tree'.

I am working on a Umbraco 4.5 system.

Anty help, that could point me in the right direction is apprecieated.

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Kevin Jump 2343 posts 14890 karma points MVP 8x c-trib

Feb 24, 2015 @ 16:51
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Hi,

When you get the string with all the data is that still in xml format (so <somedata><somechild>.....</somechild></somedata>) ?

if so - when you are in the WebMethod you will need to load the string into an XML object. there are a couple of ways to do this.

depending on what you are doing.

you can load it into an XmlDocument
```
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new xmlDoc(); 
```
```
xmlDoc.LoadXml(xmlString);
```
from there you can manipulate the xml, do xpath ect https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azsy1tw2(v=vs.110).aspx

for looping through XML i prefere to use XElement, which is in System.Xml.Linq - and lets you do linq style things
```
XElement element = XElement.Parse(xmlString);
```
if your not even getting the xml output - i would check if you need disable-output-escaping within the xslt to preserve anything.
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Jesper Lauridsen 25 posts 84 karma points

Feb 24, 2015 @ 17:55
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Hi Kevin

To be honest,I don't know in which format, the data I get, is - but I can use it in my XSLT-document to show data, so I would expect it to be XML. I am fairly new to XSLT, Umbraco and the whole environment, so bear with me, if I am clueless :)

But when I try to display it with <xsl:value-of ..> it only shows me the data, not the keys/nodes. That is probably normal behavier :)

My data-'provieder' is formatted like this;
```
public static XPathNavigator getSingleDataRecord(double customerCampaignID, double clientid)
{
       XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
       NameValueCollection icCustomer = .... get data
       xmlDoc.LoadXml("<customer />");
       XmlNode stamDataNode = xmlDoc.CreateElement("basedata");
       foreach (String key in icCustomer)
       {
           XmlNode keyNode = xmlDoc.CreateElement(key);
           keyNode.AppendChild(xmlDoc.CreateTextNode(icCustomer[key]));
           stamDataNode.AppendChild(keyNode);

       }
       return xmlDoc.CreateNavigator();
 }
```
In my XSLT file, I store the data in a variable, which I then use to display the data;

<xsl:variable name="custData" select="ExternalLibrary:getSingleDataRecord(9996496, 669)" />

My problem is, that I want to use the data in jQuery, which is calling a WebMethod to store the data on another storage.

But I don't know how I can convert/transter the above to eg. json.

Any pointers are apprecieated.
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