Transform Result Doc as XDocument

Question

XPathDocument xpathDoc = new XPathDocument(sourcePath);
XPathDocument xpathTransform = new XPathDocument(XmlReader.Create(assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Namespace.Stylesheet.xsl")));
 XslCompiledTransform trans = new XslCompiledTransform();
trans.Load(xpathTransform);
trans.Transform(xpathDoc, writer);

How do you output an XDocument from a transform?

The above code sends the output to an XmlTextWriter.  But, I need the output as an XDocument or, at least, an XmlDocument.

Answer 1

What is writer? XmlWriter? Then something like

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream);

XPathDocument xpathDoc = new XPathDocument(sourcePath);
XslCompiledTransform trans = new XslCompiledTransform();
trans.Load(XmlReader.Create(assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Namespace.Stylesheet.xsl")));
trans.Transform(xpathDoc, writer);

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(stream);

Or simply

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
            
XPathDocument xpathDoc = new XPathDocument(sourcePath);            
XslCompiledTransform trans = new XslCompiledTransform();
trans.Load(XmlReader.Create(assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Namespace.Stylesheet.xsl")));
trans.Transform(xpathDoc, null, stream);

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(stream);

Answer 2

Here is a short example:

            XslCompiledTransform proc = new XslCompiledTransform();
            proc.Load("sheet.xslt");

            XDocument result = new XDocument();
            using (XmlWriter xw = result.CreateWriter())
            {
                proc.Transform("input.xml", xw);
                xw.Close();
            }
            // now use XDocument result here e.g. for testing check output
            Console.WriteLine(result);

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