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Re: MSXSL and MSIE5beta2

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Presuming you are running IIS on the middle tier to make your
existing early MSXML scenario work, you should be able to
move to your new environment by:

  1. Installing IE5 Beta 2 on your Web Server Machine

  2. Rewrite your old XSL stylesheets to use new XSL vocabulary/syntax

  2. Updating your ASP scripts to do something like:

     // Assuming JavaScript as the language
     // -----------------------------------
     // Construct XML and XSL documents using DOM
     mydata       = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
     mystylesheet = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

     // Might want to play with async, but sync is easiest to start
     mydata.async = false;
     mystylesheet.async = false;

     // Load up their content
     mydata.load("http://url/to/your/data");
     mystylesheet.load("http://url/to/your/stylesheet");

     // Do the tranformation
     myOutput = mydata.documentElement.transformNode(
mystylesheet.documentElement);

     // Then write myOutput (a String buffer) to the HTTP stream

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Subject: MSXSL and MSIE5beta2 From: Paul_Tihansky@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 07 Dec 98 06:50:07

Hi,
     I have been generating a portion of my HTML website using XML and
MSXSL (based on the earlier XSL proposal) for a few weeks now, and it has
saved me a lot of work.  When I got a copy of MSIE5 beta 2 at XML '98, I
was all excited to update my XSL stylesheet and make my XML documents
available on my site.  I figured I would still be able to convert my XML to
HTML using my old stylesheet using MSXSL.  However, when I installed
MSIE5b2, it apparently broke MSXSL, leaving me without a way to convert to
HTML on the server-side.
     Could someone tell me if there is a replacement for MSXSL that works
with the latest Working Draft?  Or it would be nice if MSIE5b2 had a "Save
As HTML" feature.  For the time being, I am copying my XML files to another
computer running MSIE4, converting them to HTML, and copying the HTML back.

Paul



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