Hi Mike,

 This is a very basic example that take advantage of MSXML + ADO +
JSCRIPT. It is strongly based on Microsoft technology but is pretty
compact solution.

I tested using the nwind.mdb example shipped with MS Office, and it
worked well.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:ado="ado">
  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
  <msxml:script language="JScript" implements-prefix="ado"><![CDATA[
  function GetRecords(connection, tablename)
  {
      var output;
      var conn = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection");
      var cmd = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Command");
      var rs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset");
      var Err, ErrCount, fPos;
    
      conn.Open(connection);
      cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM " + tablename;
      cmd.ActiveConnection = conn;
      rs = cmd.Execute();

      ErrCount = conn.errors.count;
      if(ErrCount > 0){
        for(Err = 0; Err < ErrCount; Err++){
           output += conn.errors.item(Err);
        }
      }
      else{
        output += "\n";
        while (!rs.EOF){
         output += "<" + tablename + ">\n";
         for (fPos = 0; fPos < rs.fields.count; fPos++){
            output += "\t<"+ rs.fields(fPos).name + ">";
            v = rs.fields(fPos).value;
            if(v != null) output += v.toString();
            output += "</"+ rs.fields(fPos).name+ ">\n";
         }
         output += "</" + tablename + ">\n"; 
         rs.MoveNext;
        }
      }
      return output;
  }
  ]]>
  </msxml:script>

  <xsl:template match="/">
  <dao>
      <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"
select="ado:GetRecords('Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source =
c:\\nwind.Mdb;', 'Customers')"/>
  </dao>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Ivan Pedruzzi
eXcelon Corporation
http://www.stylusstudio.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Mike Ferrando
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:11 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Dumb questions from a newbie
> 
> 
> --- Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > My question is about being able to write xsl to pull data out of
> > mdb
> > > files?  Is this possible?
> > 
> > mdb is Microsoft Access I assume?
> 
> Yes. 
> 
> I have multiple files that make up my documents. The mdb 
> files can or could go to active web pages seperately or 
> accessed by search engines through the final document. Other 
> parts of the document are different in nature (such is the 
> EAD coder life). I don't want to get locked into using Access 
> and its HTML creations. The coding seems very microsoft 
> dependent in their web pages. There is more to data than 
> databases that is the beauty of XML.
> 
> Thanks for the info, I will get on the list and ask about it.
> 
> Mike F.
> Library of Congress
> Washington, DC
> 
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