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

[Woody <woody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks so much for that. As it turns out, both are right. I have one set of 
data that I had written half of it where I took the msxml working draft 
code, made it v1.0 xsl but left the javascript it which I can now use with 
rhino (which I hadn't heard of) and the default (xalan) processor.
I also have an older set of stylesheets that are all working draft xsl, 
which only works with msxsl 2.6, which i need to force through msxsl to 
process. I can't really use the filesystem (multiple queries), but I am 
sure there is some way of piping it in and out.

Thanks
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