Is it possible to use xml and xslt stylesheet to only update a specific section of a page? ie: a div within the dom?

I could have sworn I've done this before but have lost my source files from a couple years back. Isn't this possible via javascript?
Marry your xml and xslt files and whatever the generated data is innerHTML into a div or whatever you want? Thanks guys!!

XSLT doesn't update the input document, it transforms it to an output document, so if some of the input is to remain unchanged then it needs to be explicitly copied to the output. It's often convenient to do this using an identity template:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

augmented by template rules that match the part of the document that you want to modify.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Mr. Kay,

Thank you for the response!
I apologize because I certainly didn't ask this question the right way as I often tend to do :-/
I was discussing today with someone at work of how we could use an xml feed we're getting. I thought of using xslt to parse it and spew (such a nice way of saying it huh?) it onto a regular 'ol Joe html page. Mind you...the html page was developed with straight html.

I hope I asked my question better this time. By the way, just ordered your book from a1books here in NJ. There's not another addition coming out anytime soon is there? Just so I don't kick myself in the butt in a month or two when it comes out heh

You can transform your XML feed into a portion of HTML and then use Javascript to update your document, provided your client browser has the facilities to load an XSLT processor.

And the latest version of Michael's book is just coming out now - "XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer Reference" ISBN 978-0470192740.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

I KNEW IT!!! I should have waited. It's ok I can cancel :) Thanks guys really!
I'm really looking forward to contributing to the forums.