XML - applying 2 xslt to an xml via script?

09-20-2006, 05:43 PM

Hi All

I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's
subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method:

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_client.asp

Like maybe:

<html>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">

// Load XML
var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xml.async = false
xml.load("cdcatalog.xml")

// Load XSL ---- 1 ----
var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xsl.async = false
xsl.load("cdcatalog.xsl")

// Transform ---- 1 ----
document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl))

// Load XSL ---- 2 -----
var xsl2 = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xsl.async = false
xsl.load("cdcatalog2.xsl")

// Transform ---- 2 -----
document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl2))

</script>

</body>
</html>

Thaks for letting me know some scripting hints if anyone came across similar
situation.

Toby

toby989@hotpop.com

09-20-2006, 07:01 PM

wrote:

> I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's
> subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method:

> <html>
> <body>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>
> // Load XML
> var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
> xml.async = false
> xml.load("cdcatalog.xml")
>
> // Load XSL ---- 1 ----
> var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
> xsl.async = false
> xsl.load("cdcatalog.xsl")
>
> // Transform ---- 1 ----
> document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
>
> // Load XSL ---- 2 -----
> var xsl2 = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
> xsl.async = false
> xsl.load("cdcatalog2.xsl")
>
> // Transform ---- 2 -----
> document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl2))
>
> </script>
>
> </body>
> </html>

Well new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') works with IE/Win if ActiveX
is enabled. And even with IE whether the object created with new
ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') supports XSLT 1.0 depends on the IE
version (IE 6 and later will do, IE 5 or IE 5.5 require MSXML 3 to be
installed in replace mode). Other browsers like Mozilla or Opera do not
support script creation of ActiveX objects.

transformNode gives a string, document.write expects a string thus if
you need/want to do two document.write calls with a string result of
transformNode passed in then you can do. Those stylesheets hopefully
generate HTML snippets that belong inside the body of an HTML document.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

09-20-2006, 09:57 PM

Martin Honnen wrote:
>
>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2
>> xslt's subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method:
>
>
>
>> <html>
>> <body>
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>
>> // Load XML
>> var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
>> xml.async = false
>> xml.load("cdcatalog.xml")
>>
>> // Load XSL ---- 1 ----
>> var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
>> xsl.async = false
>> xsl.load("cdcatalog.xsl")
>>
>> // Transform ---- 1 ----
>> document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
>>
>> // Load XSL ---- 2 -----
>> var xsl2 = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
>> xsl.async = false
>> xsl.load("cdcatalog2.xsl")
>>
>> // Transform ---- 2 -----
>> document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl2))
>>
>> </script>
>>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>
>
> Well new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') works with IE/Win if ActiveX
> is enabled. And even with IE whether the object created with new
> ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') supports XSLT 1.0 depends on the IE
> version (IE 6 and later will do, IE 5 or IE 5.5 require MSXML 3 to be
> installed in replace mode). Other browsers like Mozilla or Opera do not
> support script creation of ActiveX objects.
Is there a type of scripting, one that does not need activex, that works for
different browsers, at the least ie5 and up and firefox?

>
> transformNode gives a string, document.write expects a string thus if
> you need/want to do two document.write calls with a string result of
> transformNode passed in then you can do. Those stylesheets hopefully
> generate HTML snippets that belong inside the body of an HTML document.
The second one produces html from xml, the first one produces XML from a special
form of XML.

I figured out how to merge the 2 xsl into one, but the initial question would
still be interesting how to do it.

>

09-21-2006, 11:04 AM

wrote:

> I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's
> subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method:
> [Explictly coded client-side JavaScript transforms via MSXML]

Yes, this is dead easy. Use two XSL documents and apply them one after
the other.

Remember to get the _results_ of the first transform as returned by the
..transformNode() method into a variable, rather than writing it back
directly. Then apply the second transform to _this_, not to your
original XML source.

09-21-2006, 05:12 PM

Andy Dingley wrote:
> wrote:
>
>
>>I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's
>>subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method:
>>[Explictly coded client-side JavaScript transforms via MSXML]
>
>
> Yes, this is dead easy. Use two XSL documents and apply them one after
> the other.
>
> Remember to get the _results_ of the first transform as returned by the
> .transformNode() method into a variable, rather than writing it back
> directly. Then apply the second transform to _this_, not to your
> original XML source.
>
OK, I think I will be able to do this. However, from what I know, the script
would work only for MS IE and not for Firefox. Actually I think the entire
approach is useless, if it doesnt work for Firefox.

09-21-2006, 05:40 PM

wrote:

> Is there a type of scripting, one that does not need activex, that works
> for different browsers, at the least ie5 and up and firefox?

Firefox has its own API exposed to script to run XSLT transformations,
it is documented here:
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_JavaScript_interface_to_XSL_Tran sformations>
Opera 9 also supports that API.

Note that this API integrates well with the W3C DOM API in allowing you
to get a document fragment node as the transformation result and insert
it into a target document. Using document.write with that API is not
really a good idea in my view, as you would first serialize the result
nodes to a string to have document.write feed it to a parser again to
create nodes.

> The second one produces html from xml, the first one produces XML from a
> special form of XML.

Then you don't want the approach taken in your script example, instead
you want to chain the transformations, with MSXML you would use
transformNodeToObject to transform the original XML with the first
stylesheet into a second XML document on which you could then do
transformNode to get the HTML result.

With Mozilla/Firefox you would use transformToDocument first to
transform XML to XML and then in my view transformToFragment to
transform the XML to a HTML document fragment which you could then
insert with e.g. appendChild as needed.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

09-21-2006, 05:42 PM

wrote:

> However, from what I know, the script
> would work only for MS IE and not for Firefox. Actually I think the entire
> approach is useless, if it doesnt work for Firefox.

If you read the right tutorials (recent ones, probably mentioning AJAX)
then some slightly more sophisticated code will work on either.

It's not entirely web-portable, but it's usefully so.

09-21-2006, 07:19 PM

Martin Honnen wrote:
>
>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Is there a type of scripting, one that does not need activex, that
>> works for different browsers, at the least ie5 and up and firefox?
>
>
> Firefox has its own API exposed to script to run XSLT transformations,
> it is documented here:
> <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_JavaScript_interface_to_XSL_Tran sformations>
>
This page www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_client.asp shows the example for IE. Sorry,
I am so new to all this stuff. Do you have a link to a page that shows me how to
code this for Firefox?

> Opera 9 also supports that API.
>
> Note that this API integrates well with the W3C DOM API in allowing you
> to get a document fragment node as the transformation result and insert
> it into a target document. Using document.write with that API is not
> really a good idea in my view, as you would first serialize the result
> nodes to a string to have document.write feed it to a parser again to
> create nodes.
>
>
>> The second one produces html from xml, the first one produces XML from
>> a special form of XML.
>
>
> Then you don't want the approach taken in your script example, instead
> you want to chain the transformations, with MSXML you would use
> transformNodeToObject to transform the original XML with the first
> stylesheet into a second XML document on which you could then do
> transformNode to get the HTML result.
>

I think I can do this, thanks. I also was able to merge the 2 XSLs into a single
one. Dont know what would be preferable.

> With Mozilla/Firefox you would use transformToDocument first to
> transform XML to XML and then in my view transformToFragment to
> transform the XML to a HTML document fragment which you could then
> insert with e.g. appendChild as needed.
>
>

09-21-2006, 08:17 PM

> I think I can do this, thanks. I also was able to merge the 2 XSLs into
> a single one. Dont know what would be preferable.

A single combined transformation will generally be more efficient than
two in succession.

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

09-20-2006, 07:01 PM	#2
Martin Honnen Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? wrote: > I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's > subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method: > <html> > <body> > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > // Load XML > var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") > xml.async = false > xml.load("cdcatalog.xml") > > // Load XSL ---- 1 ---- > var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") > xsl.async = false > xsl.load("cdcatalog.xsl") > > // Transform ---- 1 ---- > document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl)) > > // Load XSL ---- 2 ----- > var xsl2 = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") > xsl.async = false > xsl.load("cdcatalog2.xsl") > > // Transform ---- 2 ----- > document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl2)) > > </script> > > </body> > </html> Well new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') works with IE/Win if ActiveX is enabled. And even with IE whether the object created with new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') supports XSLT 1.0 depends on the IE version (IE 6 and later will do, IE 5 or IE 5.5 require MSXML 3 to be installed in replace mode). Other browsers like Mozilla or Opera do not support script creation of ActiveX objects. transformNode gives a string, document.write expects a string thus if you need/want to do two document.write calls with a string result of transformNode passed in then you can do. Those stylesheets hopefully generate HTML snippets that belong inside the body of an HTML document. -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

09-20-2006, 09:57 PM	#3
toby989@hotpop.com Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? Martin Honnen wrote: > > > wrote: > > >> I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 >> xslt's subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method: > > > >> <html> >> <body> >> >> <script type="text/javascript"> >> >> // Load XML >> var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") >> xml.async = false >> xml.load("cdcatalog.xml") >> >> // Load XSL ---- 1 ---- >> var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") >> xsl.async = false >> xsl.load("cdcatalog.xsl") >> >> // Transform ---- 1 ---- >> document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl)) >> >> // Load XSL ---- 2 ----- >> var xsl2 = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") >> xsl.async = false >> xsl.load("cdcatalog2.xsl") >> >> // Transform ---- 2 ----- >> document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl2)) >> >> </script> >> >> </body> >> </html> > > > Well new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') works with IE/Win if ActiveX > is enabled. And even with IE whether the object created with new > ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM') supports XSLT 1.0 depends on the IE > version (IE 6 and later will do, IE 5 or IE 5.5 require MSXML 3 to be > installed in replace mode). Other browsers like Mozilla or Opera do not > support script creation of ActiveX objects. Is there a type of scripting, one that does not need activex, that works for different browsers, at the least ie5 and up and firefox? > > transformNode gives a string, document.write expects a string thus if > you need/want to do two document.write calls with a string result of > transformNode passed in then you can do. Those stylesheets hopefully > generate HTML snippets that belong inside the body of an HTML document. The second one produces html from xml, the first one produces XML from a special form of XML. I figured out how to merge the 2 xsl into one, but the initial question would still be interesting how to do it. >

09-21-2006, 11:04 AM	#4
Andy Dingley Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? wrote: > I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's > subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method: > [Explictly coded client-side JavaScript transforms via MSXML] Yes, this is dead easy. Use two XSL documents and apply them one after the other. Remember to get the _results_ of the first transform as returned by the ..transformNode() method into a variable, rather than writing it back directly. Then apply the second transform to _this_, not to your original XML source.

09-21-2006, 05:12 PM	#5
toby989@hotpop.com Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? Andy Dingley wrote: > wrote: > > >>I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's >>subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method: >>[Explictly coded client-side JavaScript transforms via MSXML] > > > Yes, this is dead easy. Use two XSL documents and apply them one after > the other. > > Remember to get the _results_ of the first transform as returned by the > .transformNode() method into a variable, rather than writing it back > directly. Then apply the second transform to _this_, not to your > original XML source. > OK, I think I will be able to do this. However, from what I know, the script would work only for MS IE and not for Firefox. Actually I think the entire approach is useless, if it doesnt work for Firefox.

09-21-2006, 05:40 PM	#6
Martin Honnen Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? wrote: > Is there a type of scripting, one that does not need activex, that works > for different browsers, at the least ie5 and up and firefox? Firefox has its own API exposed to script to run XSLT transformations, it is documented here: <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_JavaScript_interface_to_XSL_Tran sformations> Opera 9 also supports that API. Note that this API integrates well with the W3C DOM API in allowing you to get a document fragment node as the transformation result and insert it into a target document. Using document.write with that API is not really a good idea in my view, as you would first serialize the result nodes to a string to have document.write feed it to a parser again to create nodes. > The second one produces html from xml, the first one produces XML from a > special form of XML. Then you don't want the approach taken in your script example, instead you want to chain the transformations, with MSXML you would use transformNodeToObject to transform the original XML with the first stylesheet into a second XML document on which you could then do transformNode to get the HTML result. With Mozilla/Firefox you would use transformToDocument first to transform XML to XML and then in my view transformToFragment to transform the XML to a HTML document fragment which you could then insert with e.g. appendChild as needed. -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

09-20-2006, 05:43 PM	#1
	applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? Hi All I am completely new to this, but I was wondering if I can apply 2 xslt's subsequently to an xml, via the (client side) scripting method: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_client.asp Like maybe: <html> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> // Load XML var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") xml.async = false xml.load("cdcatalog.xml") // Load XSL ---- 1 ---- var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") xsl.async = false xsl.load("cdcatalog.xsl") // Transform ---- 1 ---- document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl)) // Load XSL ---- 2 ----- var xsl2 = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") xsl.async = false xsl.load("cdcatalog2.xsl") // Transform ---- 2 ----- document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl2)) </script> </body> </html> Thaks for letting me know some scripting hints if anyone came across similar situation. Toby toby989@hotpop.com

09-21-2006, 05:42 PM	#7
Andy Dingley Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? wrote: > However, from what I know, the script > would work only for MS IE and not for Firefox. Actually I think the entire > approach is useless, if it doesnt work for Firefox. If you read the right tutorials (recent ones, probably mentioning AJAX) then some slightly more sophisticated code will work on either. It's not entirely web-portable, but it's usefully so.

09-21-2006, 07:19 PM	#8
toby989@hotpop.com Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? Martin Honnen wrote: > > > wrote: > > >> Is there a type of scripting, one that does not need activex, that >> works for different browsers, at the least ie5 and up and firefox? > > > Firefox has its own API exposed to script to run XSLT transformations, > it is documented here: > <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_the_Mozilla_JavaScript_interface_to_XSL_Tran sformations> > This page www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_client.asp shows the example for IE. Sorry, I am so new to all this stuff. Do you have a link to a page that shows me how to code this for Firefox? > Opera 9 also supports that API. > > Note that this API integrates well with the W3C DOM API in allowing you > to get a document fragment node as the transformation result and insert > it into a target document. Using document.write with that API is not > really a good idea in my view, as you would first serialize the result > nodes to a string to have document.write feed it to a parser again to > create nodes. > > >> The second one produces html from xml, the first one produces XML from >> a special form of XML. > > > Then you don't want the approach taken in your script example, instead > you want to chain the transformations, with MSXML you would use > transformNodeToObject to transform the original XML with the first > stylesheet into a second XML document on which you could then do > transformNode to get the HTML result. > I think I can do this, thanks. I also was able to merge the 2 XSLs into a single one. Dont know what would be preferable. > With Mozilla/Firefox you would use transformToDocument first to > transform XML to XML and then in my view transformToFragment to > transform the XML to a HTML document fragment which you could then > insert with e.g. appendChild as needed. > >

09-21-2006, 08:17 PM	#9
Joseph Kesselman Posts: n/a	Re: applying 2 xslt to an xml via script? > I think I can do this, thanks. I also was able to merge the 2 XSLs into > a single one. Dont know what would be preferable. A single combined transformation will generally be more efficient than two in succession. -- Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

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