Newbie: XSLT & Scripts

joefawcett · August 5th, 2005, 11:07 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by kwilliams
I'm using the XMLDOM parser. Thanks

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by kwilliams
I'm not using the MSXML parser

I'm confused. Can you a couple of lines of your transforming code?

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

kwilliams · August 5th, 2005, 11:14 AM

Here you go:

Code:

<%@ Page Language="VB" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" Debug="true" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
'Load XML
Dim xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xml.async = false
xml.load("xmldoc.xml")

'Load XSL
Dim xsl = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xsl.async = false
xsl.load("xsldoc.xsl")

'Transform file
Response.Write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
%>

KWilliams

joefawcett · August 5th, 2005, 11:28 AM

Very strange, why use ASP.NET and then use the old style COM parser, which has a few problems being used from .NET?

Anyway, you can have a script block in the XSLT, see these articles for examples:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true

and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._incorporating

or you can pass the time in as a parameter after you have the date in the format required as in here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

kwilliams · August 5th, 2005, 11:39 AM

Great, thanks for the information. And concerning why I use that method, that's the method that I found at W3Schools' website:

Code:

<%
'Load XML
set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xml.async = false
xml.load(Server.MapPath("cdcatalog.xml"))

'Load XSL
set xsl = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xsl.async = false
xsl.load(Server.MapPath("cdcatalog.xsl"))

'Transform file
Response.Write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
%>

I didn't think it was that big of a deal, because it works very well. But if you know of a better and/or more efficient way of parsing the data besides this method, please let me know. Thanks again for your help Joe.

KWilliams