Web.Config transforms outside of Microsoft MSBuild?

Question

Is it possible to use Microsoft\'s XML document transform, for preparing web.configs, outside of MSBuild? I would like to use PowerShell to do these transform without having

Answer 1

I updated the script a bit to make it work with the latest version of powershell and make it a bit easier.

function XmlDocTransform($xml, $xdt)
{
      $scriptpath = $PSScriptRoot + "\"
      $xmlpath = $scriptpath + $xml
      $xdtpath = $scriptpath + $xdt

      if (!($xmlpath) -or !(Test-Path -path ($xmlpath) -PathType Leaf)) {
         throw "Base file not found. $xmlpath";
      }

      if (!($xdtpath) -or !(Test-Path -path ($xdtpath) -PathType Leaf)) {
         throw "Transform file not found. $xdtpath";
      }

      Add-Type -LiteralPath "$PSScriptRoot\Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll"

      $xmldoc = New-Object   Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.XmlTransformableDocument;
      $xmldoc.PreserveWhitespace = $true
      $xmldoc.Load($xmlpath);

      $transf = New-Object Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.XmlTransformation($xdtpath);
      if ($transf.Apply($xmldoc) -eq $false)
      {
          throw "Transformation failed."
      }
      $xmldoc.Save($xmlpath);

      Write-Host "Transformation succeeded" -ForegroundColor Green
  }

And to invoke the function use

 XmlDocTransform "App.config" "App.acc.config"