RE: Rendering XML Server Side without using ASP

Brian, it's not clear what environment you want to run your server-side code
in. If you can't use ASP, what can you use? The two common platforms for
server-side logic (ignoring raw CGI) are ASP with JavaScript, or Java
servlets and/or JSP pages. You've made two statements: you want to work
within the confines of simple .html pages, and you want to render the XML
server-side. I don't think you can do both!

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Magick, Brian
> Sent: 29 January 2002 19:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Rendering XML Server Side without using ASP
>
>
> Hi all:
>
> I'm currently looking at alternatives that will speed up the
> development
> of a web site for which the information is currently stored in XML.
> Right now our plans are to use style sheets to render the
> html pages and
> load static html pages to our server.  Looking at the advantages a
> dynamic XML solution could provide (i.e. custom queries, not having to
> transform the XML every time a change occurs, etc...) we would like to
> load the XML files and render the pages dynamically.
>
> Our current solution is restricted because we CANNOT use ASP.  We have
> to work within the confines of simple .html pages.
>
> I've found the following JavaScript code that works GREAT for
> rendering
> these dynamic pages.  I simply change one variable that I pass to the
> style sheet and the XML renders just fine....IF the user is
> on IE 5.5 or
> higher and has at least version 3 of MSXML.  Obviously I cannot police
> this restriction and we have to make sure the site works on
> BOTH IE and
> Netscape, and works for users without the version 3 of MSXML.  The
> solution, render the XML server side (our server has MSXML 3+ and can
> handle the transformation).
>
> Does anyone know some snippet of JavaScript code that can handle the
> server side loading of XML and render it to the client as html without
> requiring the use of asp or that the client has the right version of
> MSXML???  If this cannot be done without ASP we might have to
> resort to
> a new plan or resign ourselves to tedious XML transformations and
> loading html pages to the server EVERY time a change occurs within our
> data.  I've seen a few web resources that seem to indicate we can do
> this, but I have yet to see a concrete example of how to do it.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Brian Magick
>
> Here is the current working code I've found on the web for
> doing all of
> the above on the client side:
>
>     <script type="text/javascript">
> 			// Load your XSL
> 			var objXSLT = new
> ActiveXObject("MSXML2.FreeThreadedDomDocument")
> 			objXSLT.async = false
> 			objXSLT.load("DomainStyleSheet.xslt")
>
> 			// create a compiled XSL-object
> 			var objCompiled = new
> ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XSLTemplate")
> 			objCompiled.stylesheet = objXSLT.documentElement
>
> 			// create XSL-processor
> 			var objXSLProc = objCompiled.createProcessor()
>
> 			// Load your XML
> 			var objXML = new
> ActiveXObject("MSXML2.FreeThreadedDomDocument")
> 			objXML.async = false
> 			objXML.load("domains.xml")
>
> 			// input for XSL-processor
> 			objXSLProc.input = objXML
> 			objXSLProc.addParameter("domain", "Domain1")
> 			// etc.
>
> 			// transform
> 			objXSLProc.transform()
>
> 			// display
> 			document.write(objXSLProc.output)
> 	</script>
>
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