Re: MSXSL in Java (server pages)

Thanks
Woody

When I first read this I thought that you might want to run a transform
in Java with a stylesheet with embedded Javascript.  Mozilla has
something called Rhino that helps with this but there is a lot of
playing around with versions of Xalan, Xerces, Rhino, etc., to get it to
work.  That would require that the stylesheets were otherwise XSLT 1.0
compliant.  I don't remember which version of MSXML represented the
change over to this spec but earlier versions used a somewhat different
language that won't work in a modern transformer.

If all you want to do is run MSXML from a JSP you can exec it and it
should run in another process.  You will have to be running your server
on a Windows platform of course and will also have to communicate via
the filesystem unless you can wrap the MSXML in something that will talk
to standard in/out.  Either way you will have to serialize the XML and
deserialize the result.

Barry

Woody wrote:

> I know the immediate answer is 'don't', but I have 4 weeks to do a
> proof of concept on a web version of a product that displays documents
> which are created via MSXSL.
> The xsl that I have written over the last few years will run on any
> xml processor, but the older stuff is full of javascript and runs in
> the old MSXSL 2.6. There is a lot of it and I don't have time to
> rewrite any of it.
> I therefore need to run it through MSXSL to process, and am aware that
> I can probably do something with JNI to get it working, but wondered
> if anyone else had been in this situation or knows of something that
> is already done.
> I have scoured google, but the only references to it that I have found
> is people saying not to do it (which I agree with but have no option).
>
> Woody