Parsing XML with ASP

Question

I have the code below, I just need help on figuring out the best way to get html from the content node below instead of plaintext. Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

In my experience the best way of handling XML with Classic ASP is to use an XSL stylesheet.

XSLT is quite easy to learn at a basic level, although the learning curve gets a bit steeper later on.

I recommend the w3schools tutorial

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

Once you've written your stylesheet, if you have a local XML source your asp code would look like this

set xml = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument")
xml.load(Server.Mappath("source.xml"))
set xsl = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument")
xsl.load(Server.Mappath("stylesheet.xsl"))
Response.Write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
set xsl = nothing
set xml = nothing

If the xml is from a remote url then it's a little more complex

set xml = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument")
xml.setProperty "ServerHTTPRequest", true
xml.async = false
xml.validateOnParse = false
xml.load("http://xmlsource.com")
set xsl = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.DomDocument")
xsl.load(Server.Mappath("stylesheet.xsl"))
Response.Write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
set xsl = nothing
set xml = nothing

Edit

<%= Title %>