"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> 
> 
> Russ wrote:
> 
> 
> > I've got the xml httprequest thing down pat so know worries there. I can 
> > dynamically change the html on teh browser so thats fine .. I just want to 
> > feed the XML with XSL into variable so it updates the layer. 
> 
> > again all i am looking for is how to embed the xsl into the htmlpage and 
> > link it to the xml island so that it displays they way it should.
> 
> If you know how to use XMLHttpRequest respectively Microsoft.XMLHTTP to 
> load XML then you know how to load your XSL as XSL is XML. So all you 
> need to do is use XMLHttpRequest to load your XSL from a URL, then you 
> have responseXML and that way an XML DOM object for your XSL stylesheet 
> and then you can script an XSL transformation.
> 
> If you really want to use XML islands (these are IE/Win only) then I 
> don't understand the problem either as XSL is XML so you simply need to 
> put your XSL into an XML island as you seem to do with your XML data 
> e.g. inside the HTML document:
> 
> <xml id="stylesheet1">
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>        version="1.0">
> <!-- XSL instructions go here -->
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> </xml>
> 
> then in IE 6 you can access
>    document.getElementById('stylesheet1').XMLDocument
> and have an XML DOM document with your stylesheet which you can feed to 
> the transformNode method for instance.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
> 
  ahha .. nice one thanks for the help will try it tonight. 

   cheers Russ