Re: [xsl] writing to file from MSXML 4.0

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Christian Wittern" <cwittern@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 1:38 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [xsl] writing to file from MSXML 4.0

> Dear List members,
>
> The problem I have involves using a MSXML 4.0 processor, which is embedded
> in an application to write some of the processed information to a file. I
> can't change the application, all I can do is write an XSL stylesheet to
> achieve this.
>
> In one or the other form this seems to be a problem that shows up here and
> elsewhere and the answer seems to be "can't be done in MSXML, but why 
> don't
> you use a JScript one-liner to create a node-set and write it out to a
> file?".   I asked Mr Google and his friends all things that I could 
> imagine
> to turn up something that actually gives this mysterious one-liner, but to
> no avail.  So here I am asking those in the know for a complete example of
> how to write a node-set generated with the XSLT processor of MSXML 4.0 to 
> a
> file with JSscript.  I have never programmed in JScript and not touched 
> any
> programming on Windows for many years, so I have absolutely no idea what
> needs to be done here.
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Christian
>
> --
>
> Christian Wittern
> Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
> 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
Chris

Basically you use transformNodeToObject, there's an example here: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms766561(VS.85).aspx
If your output is XML then use the same logic as the example except instead 
of the last line (WScript.echo) use result.save(<path to save to>).
If the output is not XML you can use an ADODB.Stream instead of a 
DomDocument to accept the result and write to disk.


Joe
http://joe.fawcett.name