Hi,
I am try to use XML/XSL to generate ASP pages. I already have code which works for normal HTML:
set xmlHTML = Server.CreateObject("Micro
set xslDoc = Server.CreateObject("Micro
set xmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("Micro
xmlDoc.load(Server.Mappath
xslDoc.load(Server.Mappath
xmlDoc.transformNodetoObje
xmlHTML.save(Server.Mappat
This code is being used to impliment a back office content editor and avoid a DB as the the stucture is too non-regular. This way I can generate static HTML and avoid the mergeing of XML/XSL for each request. (yes thera are ways to do all this and use a DB, but I prefer this).
My problem is that some pages need to include ASP pages as they are dynamic at "run time" providing searches and orders linked to a product database. The dificulty is in getting transformNodetoObject to correctly output "<% %>" tags. I gave tried CDATA sections both within the XSL or as the text of a XML node to be inserted at some plase in the XSL, and also using
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="y
inventive as in:
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="y
And both the alternatives with literal "<%" but all to no avail. My only results are to produce a file with html encoded lt and gt or an "Unknown error" upon running the code, obviously due to attempted transformation for the "tag".
Can anyone help? Below are examples of my XML and XSL. I have tried working with other names spaces and even investigated the MSXML name space but found nothing to help.
THANKS!!!!
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.o
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1
result-ns="">
<!-- <xsl:output method="html" cdata-section-elements=""/
<!-- Root template -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>TEST 2</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/page/*"/>
<!-- <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="y
<!-- <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="y
<!-- <xsl:text> <![CDATA[<% Response.Write("Hello From ASP") %>]] </xsl:text> -->
<!-- <xsl:comment>// <![CDATA[<% ]]> Response.Write("Hello From ASP") <![CDATA[ %>]]> \\</xsl:comment> -->
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page>
<textarea1 id="menuItem1" rows="30" cols="30">Big long textarea</textarea1>
<text id="title">TextBox</text>
<aspOpen><![CDATA[<%]]></a
<aspClose><![CDATA[>%]]
</page>
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by: guadalupePosted on 2003-04-24 at 11:53:24ID: 8390504
For got one detail, yes I could just put:
<!-- #include file="thisPagesCode.asp" -->
But given I will be out putting record sets into tables and forms it begins to mixup content with code as some html fragments will be with the code and I would like to avoid this as it defeats the idea of keeping all design centrelized in XSL. I also have a method for converting ADO RecordSets to xml and could merge the XML record sets with the "content xml" and then use the larger XMLDOM doc to generate the final content but I lose the ability to generate the "static" versions of the asp using the much less dynamic content maintained by the back office content editor. Instead the xml/xsl merging would happen for EVERY request. Less than optimum. Thanks