[thelist] Running msxml

fstorr fffrancis at fstorr.demon.co.uk
Tue Aug 13 01:19:01 CDT 2002


> You need to download both of the files he linked. MsXSL is a
standalone program and not distributed with MSXML, it comes  > in a zip
all by itself, and it's named msxsl.exe conveniently :). You will want
to run msxsl.exe with the command line    > that Brad posted.

I've got that too!  Argh??!!

So far, I've got msxml.msi (this gives me a Windows style installer),
msxsl.exe (this gives me a microsecond glimpse of my command prompt box,
and then nothing) and msxmlmsn.exe (this asks me where I want to place
my extracted files, and then gives me a .msn file).  Surely there can't
be anything else?  Maybe there is, because I can't find anything that
has asked me whether I want to run it side by side.

> What's the end goal here? Are you just learning XSL or are you
implementing something based using the command line       > program?
I've never done it that way...I prefer not to shell out for anything,
too much overhead (on Windows anyway).

I'm just trying to learn it, that's all.  Trying to run it as msxml.exe
(as has also been suggested, doesn't work)

> I think most people prefer to interface with MSXML via the COM
interface, for which you can find many examples of how to > transform an
XML doc using XSL (hint: transformNode()).

Hmm, learning here - that bit's over my head!

> My fav msxml reference.
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/xmldom/quickref/xmldom_intro.html

Thanks, I'll have a read!

Regards

Francis





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