Re: XSL vs. XSLT, different syntax?

[Yenhooi Tan <yenhooi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike Brown and all:

I did according to what you said here and downloaded the MSXML Parser Beta 
Release, July 2000  from msdn. and so instead of using the following processor:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>

I tried to use this one.
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

The result is that when the browser encounters the following part, it stops 
showing my XML
-> HTML accordingly. The old one works fine.

function even(e) { return childNumber(e) % 2; } function whichColor(e) { if 
(even(e)) return "yellow"; else return "white"; } function selectedColor(e) 
{ if (even(e)) return "#bbddbb"; else return "#dddddd"; }

Can someone tell me what's wrong.

Thanks

Yenhooi

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Xiaocun wrote:

> 1. I am converting a invoice-like XML into HTML, should I use XSL or XSLT?
> 2. In general, when to use XSL and when to use XSLT?

The only reason you should use the version of XSL supported by the MSXML 1
parser/processor that comes with IE5 is if you have a requirement to
support that specific environment. It is a dead language and will not be
supported in anything else. You can download an updated version of MSXML
(3 I believe is the current release) from msdn.microsoft.com and then run
'xmlinst' to merge it into IE5, if you want to support most of XSLT in the
browser.

You may find that until MSXML is completed and a new version of IE is
released with it installed, XML-> HTML transformations are better
accomplished with server-side, command-line XSLT processors that fully
implement the XPath and XSLT specs. I recommend you try Instant Saxon.




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