I'm having difficulties getting the MSXSL parser to work on my machine. I'am getting this error 'MSXSL is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

I downloaded the package for Begining XML 2nd Edtition. I loaded the parser...
Can someone point me in the right direction for getting this parser to work correctly. I am trying to do the exercises for XSLT.
thank you
Jonathan

As I understand it, MSXSL is a separate command-line utility which runs XSL transformations. Is it included in the package you downloaded? If it is then the system just can't find it, so try putting the directory where MSXSL exists into your PATH variable (or move MSXSL to a directory thats already in the PATH).

hth
Phil

Hi jonathon,

You first said "I'm having difficulties getting the MSXSL parser to work on my machine ... I downloaded the package for Begining XML 2nd Edtition". I'm not familiar with that book's contents so I didn't know what was in "the package". My earlier reply assumed that you actually has MSXSL already on your machine.

I think your last post clears up the problem when you say "I downloaded the package from the Microsoft / MSXML 4.0". I don't think you have MSXSL on your machine at all - as I said before its a separate (by that I mean separate from MSXML) command-line utility provided by Microsoft. You can get it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...html/msxsl.asp.

hth
Phil

Phil,
Your right I needed to download the actual exe. I thought that the package would include all that I needed. How exactly should I structure my files and setup the PATH variable in the system. "PATH" system variables.....
jonathan

I have it working now thanks a lot Phil I appreciated it.
jdm

I'm sorry, I misread your last post. The link to MSXSL above isn't a valid URL.

I'm stuck here in the same spot Jonathan was at but his post didn't explain how he fixed it...

Well I'm not sure what to point the PATH to. I downloaded the package from the Microsoft / MSXML 4.0. The installer package creates three files...all inside the WINNT/SYSTEM32 folder....it still gives the same error message. I'm lost or confused on where to point things...

OK, I understand now. Type this into www.google.com
That will find you the missing MSXSL.EXE. Download it and install it, then see what happens...

regards
Phil