RE: Hiding the XSL ?

["Chris Bayes" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ciaran,
A data island is xml within your html it can take 2 forms

<XML id="somexml">
<xxx />
</XML>

and

<XML id="somexml" src="somexml.xml"></XML>

The second form will kindof hide your xml/xsl but it is easy to get it if
you want.
There is another form which is now depracated which overloads the script tag

<SCRIPT language="XML" src="somexml.xml"></SCRIPT>

There is a tool from microsoft called the Script Encoder which will encode
vbscript and javascript
and is used in html like this.

<SCRIPT language="JScript.Encode" src="somexml.js"></SCRIPT>

But I doubt if that will work for XML.

You could possibly do this

<XML id="somexml">
<encoded>
8087098709870897087587654675454354235342543254323345478656598768758765764564
63543
</encoded>
</XML>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript>
 var xsl = deobfuscate(somexml.documentElement);
 var xsldom.loadXML(xsl);
</SCRIPT>

But again it is easy to get at if you want.

Ciao Chris

XML/XSL Portal
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of ciaran byrne
>Sent: 18 August 2000 10:07
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Hiding the XSL ?
>
>
>The only problem with this approach is that I'm using
>MSXML and not Java and I really don't want to integrate
>Java into my project!!
>Somebody mentioned the concept of data islands but to
>be honest I'm not too sure about how they work.
>
>Is any one aware of a way whereby I could load my
>XSL as a string using MSXML. That way I could obfusicate
>the XSL and have an internal algorithm for giving me the
>proper XSL string.
>
>Any ideas ??
>Ciaran.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephen Kirkham
>Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:19 PM
>To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>Subject: RE: Hiding the XSL ?
>
>
>You may want to look at the translet technology from SUN -
>http://www.sun.com/xml/developers/xsltc/ , the basic idea is to
>compile XSLT
>into Java. Its still work in progress but looks very promising.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ciaran byrne [mailto:ciaran.byrne@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 9:39 AM
>To: XML; XSL-List
>Subject: Hiding the XSL ?
>
>
>Hi all,
>	Is anybody aware of a way in which the
>XSL can be hidden from public view ?
>This would be necessary in the case whereby I have
>a product that uses XSL's and I don't want the
>XSL's to be publically available. This would be the
>case when I want to hide the implementation details
>from the user so that I have more of a "black box"
>approach whereby the user inputs one form of XML
>and out pops the other.
>
>I would ideally like some sort of binary
>
>Any ideas ?? - the only way I can think of is
>if the files were encrypted, but that seems like
>an awful lot of hassle.
>
>Cheers,
>Ciaran.
>
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