Re: MSXSL and MSIE5beta2

Presuming you are running IIS on the middle tier to make your
existing early MSXML scenario work, you should be able to
move to your new environment by:

  1. Installing IE5 Beta 2 on your Web Server Machine

  2. Rewrite your old XSL stylesheets to use new XSL vocabulary/syntax

  2. Updating your ASP scripts to do something like:

     // Assuming JavaScript as the language
     // -----------------------------------
     // Construct XML and XSL documents using DOM
     mydata       = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
     mystylesheet = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

     // Might want to play with async, but sync is easiest to start
     mydata.async = false;
     mystylesheet.async = false;

     // Load up their content
     mydata.load("http://url/to/your/data");
     mystylesheet.load("http://url/to/your/stylesheet");

     // Do the tranformation
     myOutput = mydata.documentElement.transformNode(
mystylesheet.documentElement);

     // Then write myOutput (a String buffer) to the HTTP stream

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Subject: MSXSL and MSIE5beta2 From: Paul_Tihansky@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 07 Dec 98 06:50:07

Hi,
     I have been generating a portion of my HTML website using XML and
MSXSL (based on the earlier XSL proposal) for a few weeks now, and it has
saved me a lot of work.  When I got a copy of MSIE5 beta 2 at XML '98, I
was all excited to update my XSL stylesheet and make my XML documents
available on my site.  I figured I would still be able to convert my XML to
HTML using my old stylesheet using MSXSL.  However, when I installed
MSIE5b2, it apparently broke MSXSL, leaving me without a way to convert to
HTML on the server-side.
     Could someone tell me if there is a replacement for MSXSL that works
with the latest Working Draft?  Or it would be nice if MSIE5b2 had a "Save
As HTML" feature.  For the time being, I am copying my XML files to another
computer running MSIE4, converting them to HTML, and copying the HTML back.

Paul



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