Hi Guys,

In order to sort an RSS feed i've been trying to get a date sort
function to work. I'm calling a piece of vb script to do that and when
debugging the xslt in vs2005 the output is as i expected.
However, i cant get this to work in javascript. It keeps throwing an
"invalid class string" exception when i load the stylesheet. Without
the vb script in the xslt all works fine too, so something must be
going wrong in there i recon.

I hope u guys can help me out on this. Here´s some code:

** RSS.xml **

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl"
href="stylesheet.xsl"?>
<rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0">
  <channel>
    ....
    <item>
      <title>Air France strike chaos continues</title>
      <description>More travel chaos is expected at ...</description>
 <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7065944.stm</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">...</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:37:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Europe</category>
      <media:thumbnail width="66" height="49".... />
    </item>
...
  </channel>
</rss>


** SORT.xslt **

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' 
                xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform' 
	    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
                xmlns:util="urn:myScripts" 
                xmlns:xhtml='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'
                xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
                exclude-result-prefixes="xsl xhtml msxsl utility">
  
<msxsl:script language="vb" implements-prefix="util">
    function GetDate(pubDate As String)
    Try
    Dim myDate as Date = CDate(pubDate)
    Return myDate.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss")
    Catch

    End Try
    end function
  </msxsl:script>

  <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" />

  <xsl:template match="/rss/channel">        
    <xsl:for-each select="item">
      <xsl:sort order="ascending" select="util:GetDate(./pubDate)" />
        <p class="text">
          <xsl:apply-templates select="description" />
        </p>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


** JAVASCRIPT **
...
var xslt = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XSLTemplate.3.0");
var xslDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.3.0");
xslDoc.async = false;

xslDoc.load("sort.xslt");
xslt.stylesheet = xslDoc;

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load(g_rssFeed);
...


The code breaks at:
xslt.stylesheet = xslDoc;
Throwing an "invalid class string" exception.

Anyone? :)

Regards,
Robbert.