I finally figured it out.

I had been using XMLHttpRequest to get XML documents from various
sources (XML files, SQL Server templates, ASP pages, etc.) so I used
it to get the XSL file as well.  I figured that XMLHttpRequest is
supported on a number of browsers, even if transformNode() isn't and
if in the future I needed cross-browser support (I don't for this
application), it would require fewer changes.

Having successfully used transformNode() in a browser script on a
PocketPC  using a Microsoft.XMLDOM object, I thought I wouldI try
using that to load the stylesheet in this case as well. When I used
the XMLDOM-loaded stylesheet with the XMLHttpRequest-loaded XML,
transformNode() worked perfectly.

I'm guessing that the XMLHttpRequest object is restricted for some
reason, or perhaps further steps might have allowed me to use the
XMLHttpRequest-loaded stylesheet.  In the future, however, I may try
to restrict my use of XMLHttpRequest to situations where I need to
pass parameters.

Thanks for your response...
Chuck

On Thu, 04 May 2006 12:08:21 +0200, "Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]"
<some@b...> wrote:

>Access denied implies some access.
>By any chance do you have xsl:import/xsl:include statements or 
>document() function calls in your stylesheet?