Actually, under IIS (and I suspect other servers as well) you *can* pass
parameters to an XSL file. Sort of.

You can set up IIS to process any file type through asp.dll. I've done
this with "virtual" XML files: files that end with .xml but contain
server-side
JavaScript. It gets processed like ASP and uses Response.Write to send out
the
generated XML. As far as I know, the MSXML object (if you're using
MSXML/IIS)doesn't 
care about file extensions, so you can call the files whatever you want;
they just
happen to emit XSL/XML. I believe, though, that IE5 will not recognize an
xml
file unless it has the right extension (in case you want to directly view
the
output).

So, you could use http://www.myserver.com/SomeFakeFile.xsl?screenwidth=600,
and
have it create the desired XSL for 800x600 resolution.

I'd be curious to know if Apache, or Zope, can do this, or if other XML/XSL
processors are indifferent to file extensions.


James 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Livingstone [mailto:s.livingstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:52 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: XML/XSL and ASP/IIS
> 
> 
> I am interested in how I should do the following -
> 
> I want to parse a file on the server with one XSL style sheet 
> which should
> generate XML which should then, depending on specifics be 
> parsed again with
> one of a few style sheets and the result returned as HTML.
> 
> What id the best way to do this - any examples??
> 
> PS. This is assuming there is no way to pass values to an XSL 
> so that it can
> do conditional statements depending on, say a querystring 
> value which is got
> in asp and passed to the XSL !! - possible??
> 
> thanks
> steven
> 
> Steven Livingstone
> Director, Networking Technical Associates
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