Question

In Microsoft Internet Explorer we can use Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0 activeX component

to do xslt based transformation using the transformNode() method. We can load an xml

or xslt by the following method :

var activeX = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");
activeX.load('webdirectories/xml/somefile.xml');

but can we load an xml by providing the xml as a string variable instead of providing the

location of the xml file? something like this-

var xmlFileContents = '<?xml version="1.0"?><books> .... </books>';

Answer 1

Yes, there is a method loadXML you can use e.g.

if (activeX.loadXML(xmlfileContents)) {
  // now you can access DOM here
}
else {
  // check activeX.parseError.reason and errorCode here
}