Maximum Length for XSL variable

vlad027 · January 28th, 2004, 04:57 PM

Hi,

I have tried to find an answer but I can not find one. I thought this board could provide some guidance/assistance. Thanks.

My dilemma is: I'm using --objSessionData("Query")-- to pass a querystring to a xsl variable "P_Query". Though the xsl variable is not holding querys that exceed 2200(or around 2200) characters.

ManyScripts.asp
if oxsldoc.documentelement.selectsinglenode("//xsl:variable[@name='P_Query']") is nothing = false then
oxsldoc.documentelement.selectsinglenode("//xsl:variable[@name='P_Query']").text = objSessionData("Query") end if

someXSL.xsl
<xsl:variable name="P_Query"></xsl:variable>

This works great, however, sometimes the querystring "objSessionData("Query")" can exceed 2200 characters and the xsl variable "P_Query" will not hold the complete querystring.

I'm using "P_Query" to pass the querystring as a link called "Next Page". P_Query holds the search criteria <C><O><V></V></O></C> and passes the querystring to the next page.

My question: Is there a way to assign maxlength to the xsl variable"P_Query"?

Thank you for your time and assistance -- It's greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

vlad027 · January 28th, 2004, 05:33 PM

here's the link structure:
<TR>
<TD align="left" width="30%">
<xsl:if test="number(@Current_Page) > 1">
<A>
<xsl:attribute name="HREF"><![CDATA[_SearchResults.asp?Action=PageBak&Map=]]><xsl:value-of select="$XMLMAPMap"/><![CDATA[&XSL=]]><xsl:value-of select="$ListXSL"/><![CDATA[&Page=]]><xsl:value-of select="@Current_Page"/><![CDATA[&Query=]]><xsl:value-of select="$P_Query"/></xsl:attribute><img src="images/left.gif" border="0"/>Previous Page
</A>
</xsl:if>
</TD>
<TD align="center" width="40%">
<xsl:value-of select="@Record_Count" /> Records Found 
Page <xsl:value-of select="@Current_Page" /> of <xsl:value-of select="@Page_Count" />
</TD>
<TD align="right" width="30%">
<xsl:if test="number(@Current_Page) < number(@Page_Count)">[/green]

<A>
<xsl:attribute name="HREF"><![CDATA[_SearchResults.asp?Action=PageFwd&Map=]]><xsl:value-of select="$XMLMAPMap"/><![CDATA[&XSL=]]><xsl:value-of select="$ListXSL"/><![CDATA[&Page=]]><xsl:value-of select="@Current_Page"/><![CDATA[&Query=]]><xsl:value-of select="$P_Query"/></xsl:attribute>
Next Page <img src="images/right.gif" border="0"/>
</A>

</xsl:if>
</TD>
</TR>

Thanks,
Mike

joefawcett · January 29th, 2004, 07:25 AM

Which version of DomDocument are you using, I don't know of any limitation on string length, other than max length in VB which is about 65k.
Can you show where you create the DomDocument? Are you sure the full string is being held in the session variable and it's not being truncated before it reaches the xsl?

Aside from that this code is very wasteful, searching twice for the same node:

Code:

if oxsldoc.documentelement.selectsinglenode("//xsl:variable[@name='P_Query']") is nothing = false then
oxsldoc.documentelement.selectsinglenode("//xsl:variable[@name='P_Query']").text = objSessionData("Query") end if

change it to:

Code:

Dim oSearchNode
Set oSearchNode = oxsldoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode("//xsl:variable[@name='P_Query']")
If Not oSearchNode Is Nothing Then
  oSearchNode.text = objSessionData("Query")
End If

Joe (MVP - xml)

vlad027 · January 29th, 2004, 10:31 AM

Hi Joe,

Thanks for assisting. The objSessionData("Query")does contain the entire querystring. The initial search criteria is passed using objSessionData("Query")and it returns the first page of search results. However when you click on the "Next Page" link (the P_Query variable) nothing happens (and again this is only when the search criteria is extremely long). I agree I didn't find any text that gave a maximum length. It's driving me mad =)

Here is the domdocument info:

function XMLTransform(sXMLDoc,sXSLDoc)
dim oXmlDoc
dim oXslDoc

set oXmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0")
set oXslDoc = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0")
oXmlDoc.async = false
oXslDoc.async = false
oxmldoc.preservewhitespace = false
oXmlDoc.load(application("XMLDir") & "\" & sXMLDoc)
if oXmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0 then
response.write "The following error occurred while processing the XML file: " & oXmlDoc.parseError.errorCode & ", " & oXmlDoc.parseError.reason & ", " & oXmlDoc.ParseError.line
end if

oXslDoc.load(application("XSLDir") & "\" & sXSLDoc)
oxsldoc.setProperty "SelectionLanguage", "XPath"
oxsldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'"
if oXslDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0 then
response.write "The following error occurred while processing the XSL stylesheet: " & oXslDoc.parseError.errorCode & ", " & oXslDoc.parseError.reason
response.end
end if

Thanks again Joe. I do appreciate your time and knowledge.

Mike

joefawcett · January 29th, 2004, 12:04 PM

If you run this code, it needs WScript installed so Windows only, you'll see that the file is fine, IE won't display it properly but if opened in text editor it's all there. So there must be a problem elsewhere. FILE_PATH needs altering before you run it.

Code:

var DATA_LENGTH = 10000;
var FILE_PATH = "E:\\scripts\\xml\\longString.xml"; //Change this to somewhere local

function getDomDoc()
{
  var oDom =  new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DomDocument.3.0");
  oDom.async = false;
  return oDom;
}

function main()
{
  var oDom = getDomDoc();
  var sXml = "<root/>";
  oDom.loadXML(sXml);
  var sText = "1";
  for (var i = 1; i < DATA_LENGTH - 1; i++)
  {
    sText += "0";     
  }
  sText += "1";
  var oNode = oDom.selectSingleNode("root");
  oNode.text = sText;
  oDom.save(FILE_PATH);
  WScript.echo("Done");
}

main();

--

Joe