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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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
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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