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 2:10 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [xsl] writing to file from MSXML 4.0

> Dear Joe,
>
> Thanks for the quick answer.
>
> > 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.
>
> I guess you are talking about this example:
>
>
> // Load data.
> var source = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
> source.async = false;
> source.load("hello.xml");
> if (source.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
>   var myErr = source.parseError;
>   WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
> } else {
>   // Load style sheet.
>   var stylesheet = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
>   stylesheet.async = false;
>   stylesheet.load("hello.xsl");
>   if (stylesheet.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
>      var myErr = stylesheet.parseError;
>      WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
>   } else {
>      // Set up the resulting document.
>      var result = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
>      result.async = false;
>      result.validateOnParse = true;
>      // Parse results into a result DOM Document.
>      WScript.Echo(source.transformNodeToObject(stylesheet, result));
>   }
> }
>
> Unfortunately, this is doing the reverse, calling a XSL transform from
> Jscript. What I need is calling JScript from XSLT.
> The following is the closest I found to what I need:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>      xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
>      xmlns:user="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace";>
>
> <msxsl:script language="JScript" implements-prefix="user">
>   function xml(nodelist) {
>      return nodelist.nextNode().xml;
>   }
> </msxsl:script>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:value-of select="user:xml(.)"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> However what I do not understand is, how to get an object that can be
> saved in the msxsl:script block.
>
> All the best,
>
> Chris
Chris

You're right, I misunderstood.
In the script block you need to create a new DomDocument and load the XML. 
Then call the save method.
function saveNodes(nodelist)
{
 var oDom = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DomDocument.4.0");
 oDom.loadXML("<root/>");
 for (var i = 0, l = nodelist.length; i < l; i++)
 {
     var node = nodelist[i];
    oDom.documentElement.appendChild(node.cloneNode(true));
 }
 oDom.save("myFolder/myFile.xml");
}

Joe
http://joe.fawcett.name