RE: XML from URL in VBscript

["Britt, James" <James.Britt@pegs.com>]

> From: Warren Keane [mailto:Warren@onlinecmn.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 12:15 AM
> To: Xml-Dev Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: XML from URL in VBscript

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> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) Are there VBscript functions that I can use to capture the output
>    from the URL into a variable and then pass it to my transformation
>    routines.
>    
> 2) Is there something I can do in either the XML or XSL files to 
>    dynamically capture the XML document that resides at the URL?
>    Something like text/xml href=url...

You may want to look at the Microsoft XML parser, version 3.0 or
higher, and read up on the XMLHTTP object.  This should let you
do a server-side HTTP GET to retrieve the web page at the URL passed
in on the query string.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/xmlparser.asp


James Britt