Consider this XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" versi
+on="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:param name='test'>testdata</xsl:param>
<xsl:template match="/">
<TAG>
<SOME_DATA>
</SOME_DATA>
</TAG>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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Also, consider this perl snippet:
#perl;
# INIT ----
use warnings;
use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);

my $obj_xslt = Win32::OLE->new('MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0') or die "new()
+ failed creating DOM";
$obj_xslt->{async} = "False";
$obj_xslt->load('<the_xslt_as_mentioned_above>');

# Get parameters from xslt
my $xpath = "//xsl:param[\@name='test']";
my $q = $obj_xslt->selectSingleNode($xpath);
print $q->item(0)->nodeValue, "\n";

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My question: Why is this code not able to extract the value of the <xsl:param name='test'> variable? I tried about anything, no result however.
Can anyone help me retrieving the 'testdata' - data from the xslt?
I have to mention that this construct works fine with a 'plain xml' file. Since this xslt is also xml I reckon this should work also. Perhaps namespacing problem? I dunno. Please help!
Regards,
John

In reply to Strange XML parser behaviour using MSXML2 Version 4.0 or not...? by j.goor

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