> May I suggest this alternate design?
>
> Write a Java program that extracts the customer list from
> LDAP and outputs
> XML containing that information.  Then transform that XML via
> XSL as in your
> original idea.
>

I agree entirely.

If you want to avoid the intermediate XML file, you could write your Java
program to spit out SAX events directly into the XSLT stylesheet: but since
you're a beginner and in a hurry, that might be best left until later.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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