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By	Don Kackman
First Posted	10/09/2001
Times viewed	183

Support automatic transformation using XSLT in IE in side by side mode

Summary A small XSL stylesheet that defers the actual transformation to an XSLT stylesheet

When you open an XML document in Internet Explorer and it has the xml-stylesheet directive IE will transform the XML and display the output of that transformation. The problem is that versions of IE prior to v6 uses MSXML2.5 by default to do the transformation. MSXML 2.5 does not support XSLT, it supports an older working draft syntax. So unless your users have MSXML3 installed in replace mode or are using IE6 you can't leverage this functionality for easily displaying XML transformed by XSLT. This is an XSL stylehseet that can be used to defer the XSLT transformation in IE. This allow syou to write XSLT stylehseets that will be supported by any version of IE on a machine that has MSXML3, either in side by side or replace mode. I place the location of XSLT stylesheet in a processing instruction of my own invention, you could easily modify this to hard code a particular stylesheet or look it up somewhere in the data. Whatever works out for your use cases.

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<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:eval no-entities="true">t(this)</xsl:eval> </xsl:template> <xsl:script language="JScript"> function t( pDoc ){ try { var xml = new ActiveXObject( "msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0" ); xml.async = false; xml.validateOnParse = xml.resolveExternals = true; if ( !xml.load( pDoc.url ) ) return "xml error=" + xml.parseError.reason; var pi = xml.selectSingleNode( "pi('xslt-stylesheet')" ); if ( pi == null ) return "Could not locate xslt-stylesheet directive"; var xsl = new ActiveXObject( "msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0" ); xsl.async = false; xsl.validateOnParse = xsl.resolveExternals = true; if ( !xsl.load( getHref( pi.text ) ) ) return "xsl error=" + xsl.parseError.reason; return xml.transformNode( xsl ); } catch ( e ) { return e.description; } } function getHref( s ) { var str = "href="; var offset = s.search( str ); offset += str.length + 1; return s.slice( offset, -1 ); } </xsl:script> </xsl:stylesheet>

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<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="boot.xsl"?> <?xslt-stylesheet href="someOtherStylesheet.xslt"?> <data> <node>hello</node> </data>

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