Hi,

Totally new at this, so this is the issue... I get an xml feed back from an xmlhttp query

function api_PSQT(url,string)
{
    req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    if (req)
    {
        req.onreadystatechange = processReqChange;
        req.open("POST",url,true);
        req.send(string);
    }
}

Now I get back the xml, but how in gods name am I supposed to apply the xsl format sheet to the xml file that I received...

The only way I know how to do it, is when I have the xml file in question, I just add the header at the top of the file.. but is there a way to apply the formatting, and output it to a div's innerHTML?

Thank you in advance!

As your code is IE specific I presume that's your target browser. Given that you would create a msxml2.domdocument.3.0 using client-side code, load the XSLT and use the responseXML.transformNode method, passing in the DOM containing the stylesheet.
Look on msdn.com for msxml and transformNode.


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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

You might want to have a look at the Sarissa Library. It does all sorts of things around XMLHTTP and XSLT for you. It's well developed and cross platform: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sarissa/

Hth
:-) stw

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance!

I took a look at the msdn site, and found a segment of code that I tried to implement, but it doesn't work, and I have no clue what I'm going wrong... I get the error "You have an error The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." I know that the xml output is fine, as I put it to a text file, changed the ext to xml, and opened it without issue.

var req;

function makeCall(url,data)
{
    req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    if (req)
    {
        req.onreadystatechange = processChange;
        req.open("POST",url,true);
        req.send(data);
    }
}
function processChange()
{
    //if request shows complete
    if (req.readyState == 4)
    {
        // Load data.
        var source = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
        source.async = false;
        source.load(req.responseText);
        if (source.parseError.errorCode != 0)
        {
            var myErr = source.parseError;
error ->>>> alert ("You have error " + myErr.reason);
        }
        else
        {
            // Load style sheet.
            var stylesheet = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
            stylesheet.async = false
            stylesheet.load("format.xsl");
            if (stylesheet.parseError.errorCode != 0)
            {
                var myErr = stylesheet.parseError;
                alert ("You have error " + myErr.reason);
            }
            else
            {
                // Echo back XSLT output to console
                document.body.appendChild(source.transformNode(sty lesheet));
            }

        }
    }
}

That's because you're using load instead of loadXML. Either do: or preferably: The latter requires that responseXML holds an XML document.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Thank you very much, that was the bit needed!