Executing XML with XSL Processing Instructions

[sneill@mxlogic.com]

Hi,


Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

I'm loading an XML file which has a processing instruction
(<xsl-stylesheet href="..."/>). I need a cross-browser solution which
will load the XML file and have it's XSL PI run and translate the XML
to genereate the desired output.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Steve

[RobG]

Re: Executing XML with XSL Processing Instructions

sneill@mxlogic. com wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
>
> I'm loading an XML file which has a processing instruction
> (<xsl-stylesheet href="..."/>). I need a cross-browser solution which
> will load the XML file and have it's XSL PI run and translate the XML
> to genereate the desired output.
>
> Any suggestions?[/color]

Here is a useful link that includes demos for the two main models, IE
and Firefox:

<URL:http://www.ajaxpattern s.org/Browser-Side_XSLT>


It is part of an on-line wiki on 'Ajax'. Don't be put-off by the use of
the buzzword, it covers a great deal of stuff about web applications,
including DOM & DHTML as well as 'remoting' using both XMLHttpRequest
and iFrames. The wiki is not yet editable, but it should be in a few weeks:

<URL:http://www.ajaxpattern s.org/>



--
Rob

[Danny]

Re: Executing XML with XSL Processing Instructions



XSLT does all that, is a preprocessor, you give the <xsl> to the XML, when
the client calls the XML, it'll superimpose the XSL to process all nodes as
instructed in the XSL and will output as instructed in the XSL sheet file,
which will have all the CSS and HTML and JS if any needed, all the XSL part
does is processing of the XML nodes, when done, the client/user-agent will
display the XHTML output which the HTML parsing engine will process as its
STDIN. Just google for XSL Transforms, www.w3schools.com has a tutorial on
it or use RobG's.


Danny

[sneill@mxlogic.com]

Re: Executing XML with XSL Processing Instructions

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately I'm still not sure how to have an
XML document with embedded XSL stylesheet reference (loaded using
XMLHTTP in Javascript) get automatically parsed and rendered. Loading
the document directly into the browser works as expected.

Steve