I am trying to use XSL to translate an XML file into a neat table. For that I used the examples provided by W3schools which can be located here as a starting point. Yet the browser(chrome) is throwing the error that is described in the title of this post. I even tried copying the exact same example on W3 only to be met with the same error. Tried debugging in Firefox, this is the console output
TypeError: Argument 1 of XSLTProcessor.importStylesheet is not an object.
A similar question was posted before and the solution was in changing the model from synchronous to async. I tried doing that through the onreadystatechange method but without success. Here is the code I worked with.
<html>
<head>
<script>
function loadXMLDoc(filename)
{
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
xhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
else
{
xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
return xhttp.responseXML;
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", filename);
try {xhttp.responseType = "msxml-document"} catch(err) {} // Helping IE11
xhttp.send("");
}
function displayResult()
{
xsl = loadXMLDoc("cdcatalog.xsl");
xml = loadXMLDoc("cdcatalog.xml");
// code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject || xhttp.responseType == "msxml-document")
{
ex = xml.transformNode(xsl);
document.getElementById("dataTable").innerHTML = ex;
}
// code for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.
else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
{
xsltProcessor = new XSLTProcessor();
xsltProcessor.importStylesheet(xsl);
resultDocument = xsltProcessor.transformToFragment(xml, document);
document.getElementById("dataTable").appendChild(resultDocument);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="displayResult()">
<div id="dataTable" />
</body>
Thank you for all the help!
Here is an example of two asynchronous requests where the callback of one event handler starts the next request whose callback does the transformation. To keep it simple, I have used
onload
instead ofonreadystatechange
, if you really need support for old IE versions you will need to adapt the code.Online at http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xslt/test2015072001.html, works fine with current versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome on Windows 8.1.
If you want to start two asynchronous requests directly to load XML and XSLT then you need to do some more work to make sure you know when both documents have been loaded to process them, an example of that is at http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xslt/test2015072101.html: