[xsl] shouldn't work but it does?

[bry@xxxxxxxxxx]

using msxml 4, the following extension 
function works on msxsl.exe command line 
tool:

function returnNSET(){

var testnsset;
testnsset= "<tag>blah</tag>";
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject
("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
 xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.loadXML(testnsset);
return xmlDoc;

}

so I can do <xsl:copy-of select="n:returnNSET
()"/>
I don't know if I would consider it exactly 
wrong that it does this, although it is not 
exactly following Microsoft's documentation.

Of course using the stylesheet via a 
processing instruction returns the 
error 'parameter incorrect'

This is in no way improved by changing it to 
the correct return xmlDoc.xml; however if I 
do that and then change my copy-of to the 
the following:
 <xsl:apply-templates select="msxsl:node-set
(n:returnNSET())"/>
then I get what I would expect from the 
documentation  - an escaped string.

now I don't necessarily need the stylesheet 
to run anywhere but the commandline, but it 
might be nice to have that possibility. 


by the way, anyone have any example msxml 
extensions using ActivePerl? I am really in 
great need of them for this test.





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