doodlehaus

I’m sure everyone’s had this problem (well, probably not, but hey, I did). You have a super-monkey-riffic SQL server full of bitchin’ data. You also have a standard-issue Redmond-compliant Microsoft server all souped up with the latest and greatest MSXML dll (see previous articles/lamentations). You want to call a stored procedure that will return [...]

Aha! I’m not insane. It is my suspicion that the server has an old version of the msxml.dll which is not up to w3c snuff. So, just in case you were wondering, the correct options for a XSL stylesheet declaration are:
<xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″ xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”>
or
<xsl:transform version=”1.0″ xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”>
I guess the moral of this story is this: [...]

I have just discovered that the stylesheet declaration that allows for server-side parsing is wrong.
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl”>
The W3C informs me that this was a working draft. So why then do the correct delcarations not work? Anyone? Grrr.

I’ve got a problem. A really annoying problem. I so want to embrace XML. The humungous site that I administer could benefit from the portability and platform neutrality. Oh, it would be wonderful. If only I could wrap my brain around XSL. I’m very close, save for a few annoying bugs that seem to render [...]