<holtennorris@g...> wrote in message 
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> Hello -
>
> I'm a long time Xalan/Saxon/EXSLT user who's researching what kinds of
> things I can do in msxsl:script javascript extensions on IE 6.0 ( I
> assume this is normally msxml version 3.0 ? )  I read some interesting
> ideas by Dimitre about EXSLT extensions at xml.com but it wasn't clear
> if this applies to IE or server side .Net.
>
> For example, is it possible inside msxsl:script to load an external
> XML file? ( xmlDoc.loadXML("xml/text.xml");  loadXML seems to work
> okay, but I'm not able to access any of the documentElement (root)
> childNodes.  I use XML metadata to drive Ajax code generation, and I'm
> trying to see if I can dynamically edit metadata ( add/delete nodes,
> etc. ).
>
> Is there any way to modify the XML or XSL in the current running
> transformation?  I would think not, and my research showed that any
> DOM or DOM nodes ( passed to my javascript functions) were read
> only.   Has anyone found a workaround for this ?
>
> The msxml SDK docs MS download has a ton of great detail on the APIs,
> but not much about what applies or not to usage in msxsl:script
> running in IE.  Are there any resources on this topic, sample code,
> etc, etc. ?
>
> I'd love to hear from Dimitre on this !
> Thanks for your thoughts !
> - Holten

On top on what Martin wrote you can do almost anything from a script block, 
limited mainly by the security measures in force. For example you could 
connect to an external database or web service.
Whether either of these two options is good practice however depends on the 
specific scenario.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name