RE: Is it possible to dynamically select portions of an XML page?

[Ben Robb <Ben@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had a general thought about this.

I am using the XML DOM object in IE5 - so the ASP page that sets it up looks
something like this:


<% var sourceFile = "http://<server>/inetpub/folder/somepage.xml";
  var styleFile = "http://<server/inetpub/folder/somesheet.xsl";

  // Load the XML 
  var source = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
  source.async = false;
  source.load(sourceFile);

  // Load the XSL
  var style = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
  style.async = false;
  style.load(styleFile);

  result = source.transformNode(style);
  
  Response.Write(result);

%>

Is there any reason why I can't have "styleFile" as an ASP page (say
someasp.asp?title=a_title"), and use lots of "Response.Write" calls in it?

That way I could say something like:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
strQS = Request.QueryString("title")

Response.Write("<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>")
%>

and so on, putting in the value for strQS as and when required.

Has anyone implemented anything like this?

Ben Robb
cScape Ltd


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