Re: [xsl] MSXSL in Java (server pages)

[Barry Lay <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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