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Output ASP code tags "<% %>" via Microsoft.XMLDOM.transformNodetoObject

Asked by: guadalupe

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("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
set xslDoc     = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
set xmlDoc     = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")

xmlDoc.load(Server.Mappath(xml))
xslDoc.load(Server.Mappath(xsl))

xmlDoc.transformNodetoObject xslDoc, xmlHTML 'Create procesed HTML file
xmlHTML.save(Server.Mappath("out.html"))

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="yes">&lt;%</xsl:text>, and even trying to be

inventive as in:

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="&gt;"/>

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.org/TR/WD-xsl"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   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="yes" select="/page/aspOpen/text()"/> -->          
          <!-- <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="&gt;"/> -->
          <!-- <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[<%]]></aspOpen>
     <aspClose><![CDATA[&gt;%]]></aspClose>
</page>

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2003-04-24 at 11:45:52ID20595386
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xmlhtml

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Extensible HTML (XHTML)

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Answers

 

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

 

by: ASPGuruPosted on 2003-04-24 at 12:39:06ID: 8390838

i don't have time to check this out, but a fast fix if you need to get the system running fast is to use some other characters like [[[ and ]]] instead of <% %> and then use two calls to the replace function as a last step before writing the file to insert the <% and %> ...


ASPGuru

 

by: guadalupePosted on 2003-04-24 at 13:36:42ID: 8391121

Thanks ASPGuru, I had thought of that though 1. its a little bit of a kludge and I still have time to hope for somthing nicer and 2. I believe that transformNodetoObject produces a stream not a string and I'm unsure how to do replaces on a stream.

 

by: ASPGuruPosted on 2003-04-24 at 14:09:45ID: 8391278

nope... in this case the result of transformNodetoObject is inserted into the DOM which you created for xmlHTML...

you then easily can grab the whole xml with xmlHTML.xml...


ASPGuru

 

by: guadalupePosted on 2003-04-24 at 14:20:22ID: 8391330

Ok but then how would I identify the fake text "[[[", like this:

set aspOpenList = xmlHTML.getElementsByTagName("[[[")

???  Becauase they really aren't a tag but some kind of raw text which I'm unsure of how to access...

 

by: ASPGuruPosted on 2003-04-24 at 14:46:10ID: 8391482

no... first get the whole text:

txt = xmlHTML.xml

then replace the tags:

txt = replace(replace(txt,"[[[","<"&"%"),"]]]","%"&">")

then use FSO to write the txt into a file...


btw... "<"&"%" instead of "<%" is to make sure the ASP parser doesn't think a new ASP block starts here...


ASPGuru

 

by: guadalupePosted on 2003-05-03 at 23:38:19ID: 8453579

Well ASPGuru ... a hack it is, no one else has any suggestions.  Thanks!

 

by: CleanupPingPosted on 2003-10-17 at 23:59:56ID: 9575756

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by: YZlatPosted on 2004-05-29 at 13:44:39ID: 11188648

No comment has been added to this question in more than 21 days, so it is now classified as abandoned..
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