[xsl] Allowed return data types using addobject?

[Neil Hunter <HunterN@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am using ASP and MSXML.

I am calling a COM object (written in VB) that is made available to an XSLT
style sheet using XSLTprocessor.addobject.  I can successfully call a method
in the object from the style sheet that returns xml as a string ( so <
becomes &lt; etc.) to an xsl:variable but I want to call one that returns a
tree to be converted into a node-set. I have tried all sorts of methods to
accomplish this but none have been entirely successful. What data type
should I use for the return value (within VB) of the COM method to achieve
this and what should I be doing to turn this value into a node-set. Is it
even allowable to return an object? 

My current approach is call a method that takes a string and returns an
MSXML2.DOMDocument using:

<xsl:variable name="msid"><xsl:value-of
select="//rsc:docroot/@msid"/></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="links" select="myObj:resolveLinks(string($msid))"/>
<xsl:variable name="doclinks" select="msxsl:node-set($links)"/>

The ASP page that does the work tends to hang and time out.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil.
      

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