Subject: RE: [xsl] Using native XPath in IE with Javascript From: Joe Fawcett <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:34:01 +0000 |
Manfred To retrieve the underlying XML document in IE you need document.XMLDocument. This gives an instance of msxml2.domdocument.3.0 loaded with the base XML. Joe http://joe.fawcett.name > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:45:56 +0100 > From: manfred.staudinger@xxxxxxxxx > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] Using native XPath in IE with Javascript > > Hi, > > On 18/02/2008, Abel Braaksma wrote: >> Using XSLT in a browser through JavaScript is usually easiest with the >> excellent open source Sarissa, which takes away the burden of little >> differences in calling XPaths directly (i.e., the function parameter for >> the namespace is at the end in FF/Op and at the beginning in IE). > Thanks for remembering me on that. I had a look on it some time ago, > but I don't use it, mainly because it requires ActiveX to be activated > in the browser. But I certainly did not know the superb documentation > "Howto", which was a great help for me to sort things out > > I did not, however, solve my IE6 problems. As it seems I don't have an > XML document: > alert(document.xml); ... undefined > alert(document.documentElement.nodeName); ... HTML > document.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath"); ... Object > doesn't support this property or method > > Here is my checklist: > 1. the browser gets an xml file from the server with application/xml > 2. the PI triggers the XSLT which is served with application/xsl+xml > 3. the xsl:output method="xml" > > Is something missing here? Or is my diagnosis wrong? > > Regards, > Manfred > http://documenta.rudolphina.org/ > > On 18/02/2008, Abel Braaksma wrote: >> Manfred Staudinger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>>From a posting back in 2004 by Dimitri Glazkov, speaking about IE (I >>> would be interested in the second case only): >>> I mean, you can very much do XPath in JavaScript, except it can >>> only occur in two >>> cases (that I know of): >>> 1) As call to an Msxml.DOMDocument object, created using the new >>> ActiveXObject() statement. >>> 2) If an HTML document was generated as a result of a client-side >>> XSL transformation >>> from an XML file. >>> http://glazkov.com/blog/xpath-unleashed/ >>> >> >> 3) on the current HTML document that is loaded in the browser. However, >> note that you have to reload it in a freethreaded DOM object to make it >> work with XSLT (iirc). >> >> 4) in an msxml:script object, though I wouldn't recommend it. >> >> Using XSLT in a browser through JavaScript is usually easiest with the >> excellent open source Sarissa, which takes away the burden of little >> differences in calling XPaths directly (i.e., the function parameter for >> the namespace is at the end in FF/Op and at the beginning in IE). >> >> Cheers, >> -- Abel Braaksma
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