"Matty M" <matty@m...> wrote in message
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> "Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message
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> > Matty M wrote:
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> > > Windows 2003 with IIS6 comes with an XML parser but ive had customers
> asking
> > > for XML4. Why has Microsoft released several versions and why does
> microsoft
> > > not package it as an update for .net or something?
> >
> > .NET has its own classes for XML processing, MS doesn't want you to use
> > MSXML from .NET I think, there are knowledge base entries that such a
> > combination is not supported.
> > As for several versions, MSXML 4 performs much better than MSXML 3 and
> > avoids support for the legacy XSL version that MSXML 3 supports. However
> > IE6 needs MSXML 3 so that maybe the reason why you find that on an OS.
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> > -- 
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> > Martin Honnen
> > http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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>
> Hi,
>
> Ok cheers, so can I just install it on my 2003 server and users that put
xml
> pages on there it will work?
>
> Cheers
>
> Matt
>
Yes, but they must ask for it specifically, generic code will only use upto
version 3. They must use "Msxml2.DomDocument.4.0", for instance, as a
scripting ProgId. As far as I know there are fewer security issues with
version 4 compared to version 3. Look in the docs about turning off the
document function in XSLT for example.
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Joe (MVP - xml)