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XSLT Tutorial

Worksheet 8: XSLT: Putting it all together

For this worksheet, open the default.htm in Notepad (or double-click on the file and then view source in the browser).

In the function, transformFiles() :

Load the XML and XSLT files, making sure you go through all the basics of loading XML files, for excample your async property, checking for load errors, etc.:

set xslDoc=createObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")
set xmlDoc= createObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")

We need to have a container in which to output the transformation HTML.  For this we use a <div> element to output the transformation, by getting a reference to the <div> found in the HTML body.

set objDiv = document.all("divHeadlines")

We then call the transformNode method on the DomDocument to output the transformed HTML into the DIV's InnerHTML property:

strHTML = xmlDoc.transformNode(xslDoc)
objDiv.innerHTML = strHTML

Note:  The reason that I say this is the basics, is because one the latest version of the msxml DOM, there are methods and objects for allowing one to cache the XSLT files, called templates. 

When we spoke about the xsl:param element, there are also methods and objects for allowing one to pass a parameter to the XSLT file.

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