MSXSL.exe (Was: Re: Collapsing run-on tag chains

"Pieter Reint Siegers Kort" <pieter.siegers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:2AB80C7760A816488232AF88AD668ED001CB3A06@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I finally saw my last post show up :-)
>
> Now what do you think of that? The tool's article was dated September 
> 2001,
> btw.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxml/html/
> msxsl.asp
>
> To be honest, I didn't know of the utility until today, when I entered the
> thread that Richard started.

Yes, msxsl.exe is a very nice and useful utility. Brilliant programming by 
Andy Kimball, who put so much functionality in just 20K.

There was an update done in 2003, I think. The latest download has been set 
up on 19 Sep. 2004 at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2fb55371-c94e-4373-b0e9-db4816552e41&displaylang=en

There one will also find the source code of msxsl.

One year ago I had the pleasure to extend msxsl.exe with support for EXSLT 
for MSXML4 (the Common and Sets modules). This can be downloaded from the 
sourceforge.net page of FXSL. Around last Christmas I also performed a minor 
fix to msxsl to make it work with high-frequency timers as I found out that 
msxsl.exe stopped to display timings on my newly bought  PC. This latest 
version can also be downloaded at FXSL's sourceforge.net page.

It is extremely useful and handy to use msxsl.exe with an XSLT IDE such as 
XSelerator -- for example in this way it is possible to avoid writing any 
code when using EXSLT for MSXML4.

I am very pleased using a similar utility -- nXSLT.exe (the msxsl analog for 
.NET) by Oleg Tkachenko.

msxsl.exe and nXSLT are great tools, because they free the XSLT programmer 
of any extraneous coding/integration tasks and allow them to concentrate 
entirely on their XSLT code.


Cheers,

Dimitre.