Joe said:
I have a couple of xml dll's installed on my machine. I used a
Microsoft utility to determine which version is used by Internet
Explorer. I would like to know how to configure IE to use a specific
version of the XML parser. It currently utilizes version 3 sp3, but
like it to use version 4 for a test I'm trying to conduct.
As far as I know you can't configure IE or MSXML 4 in a way that IE uses
MSXML 4 for parsing and rendering XML files loaded into the browser
window. If you want to use MSXML 4 in IE then you need to use script in
a HTML page and load the XML with script e.g. JScript
var xmlDocument = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0');
xmlDocument.async = true;
xmlDocument.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xmlDocument.readyState == 4) {
alert(xmlDocument.xml);
}
}
xmlDocument.load('test20040610.xml');
The above doesn't test whether Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0 is found but of
course production code should do as no current IE version comes with
MSXML 4.
I think the reason (or maybe one of the reasons) that you can't install
MSXML 4 in a way that it replaces MSXML 3 as IE6 default parser is that
MSXML 4 does no longer support the wd-xsl language that MSXML 2 and 3
support and that IE uses to produce the collapsible outline of an XML
document that is not associated with a stylesheet.
