I have discovered that the server that works has the following dll's that 
are not on the server that doesn't work
msxml2.dll
msxml2a.dll
msxml2r.dll
msxml3.dll
msxml3a.dll
msxml3r.dll

I guess the problem relates to this. How do I install the above dll's. Is it 
just a matter of placing a copy and registering them?


Anyway the XML is like this

<root>
<copylink href="http://website" class="dgrey">contact</copylink>
<copylink href="http://website" class="dgrey">disclaimer &amp; 
privacy</copylink>
</root>

and the xsl looks like

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="mode">OPEN</xsl:param>

<xsl:template match="/">
<div id="footer">
Copyright _copy; 2004 blah_spc_spcABN blah blah
_spc_spcCRICOS Provider No: blah
<br />
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
</div><!-- e footer -->
</xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="copylink">

               <xsl:if test="$mode='OPEN'">
                 <a>
                  <xsl:attribute name="href">
                   <xsl:value-of select='./@href' />
                  </xsl:attribute>
                  <xsl:attribute name="class">
                    <xsl:value-of select='./@class' />
                  </xsl:attribute>
                  <xsl:value-of select='.' />
                </a>_spc|_spc
               </xsl:if>

              </xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>


and it is called via the following vb code

Function std_footer(mode)
dim loadstd_footer_xml
dim loadstd_footer_xsl
dim std_footer_xml
dim std_footer_xsl
dim paramsNodes,paramnode,rootnode
set std_footer_xsl = server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
set std_footer_xml=server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
loadstd_footer_xml=std_footer_xml.load("D:\xml\std_footer.xml")
loadstd_footer_xsl=std_footer_xsl.load("D:\xml\xsl\std_footer.xsl")
if loadstd_footer_xsl and loadstd_footer_xml then
  Set paramsNodes = std_footer_xsl.getelementsbytagname("xsl:param")
  for each paramnode in paramsnodes
    if paramnode.attributes(0).name="name" then
      select case paramnode.attributes(0).text
      case "mode"
         paramnode.text=mode
      end select
    end if
  next
  std_footer=std_footer_xml.transformNode(std_footer_xsl)
  std_footer=replace(std_footer,"_spc","&nbsp;")
  std_footer=replace(std_footer,"_copy","&copy")
else
 if not loadstd_footer_xml then
  std_footer="error -- cant load xml"
 else
  std_footer="Error -- stylesheet can NOT be loaded ??"
 end if
end if
end function


"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@n...> wrote in message 
news:O$pwnfCnGHA.692@T......
> "Janette" <ning@c...> wrote in message 
> news:OOnP5DBnGHA.4604@T......
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please excuse my ignorance. I have a web based application that uses a 
>> combination of xml and xsl to produce standard headers and footers on 
>> each webpage. I have the task of migrating this application to another 
>> server. I have copied all the files that I know make up the website and 
>> the header and footer stuff, but when I run the website on the new 
>> server, the xsl appears in the html instead of the expected html.
>>
>> The application is running on Windows 2000 server service pack 2, with 
>> IIS 5 on both the new and old server. I assumed that Win2000 supports xml 
>> and xsl. Is this incorrect? Or do I need to install a parser such as 
>> MSXML 4.0? Or is it possible that it is a configuration issue that I am 
>> having.
>>
>> What confuses me, is I have another web application that uses the same 
>> standard header and footer code which is also running on Win2000. The 
>> only difference I can see is this other server has .NET framework 
>> installed.
>>
>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>> Janette
>>
> Sounds like different versions of msxml, one using an older syntax.
> You'll have to show an example of the offending XSLT and how you're doing 
> the transformation.
>
> -- 
>
> Joe Fawcett -  XML MVP
>
>
> http://joe.fawcett.name
>