That works beutifully, however I ran into another problem... :) I found that "page.xsl" cannot be a zope object, be it a LocalFS['filename'] or a DTML Method or DTML Doc. Is there a way using LocalFS or any other product where I can pass it the actual path rather than the object...?? TIA AM tomas@fabula.de wrote:

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:06:33PM -0700, AM wrote:

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Hi all, I realize the following is a python question but my post on comp.lang.python has been languishing there for some time now without any replies, so I just wanted to check if any of you knew a way out of my problem...

I am trying to convert XML docs to HTML docs using an XSL file on the fly. The function (external method ) that I have which does it is the following:

## code begin

import libxml2 import libxslt

styledoc = libxml2.parseFile("page.xsl") style = libxslt.parseStylesheetDoc(styledoc) doc = libxml2.parseFile("xml_file.xml") result = style.applyStylesheet(doc, None) #--- style.saveResultToFilename("-", result, 0) #--- style.freeStylesheet() doc.freeDoc() result.freeDoc()

## code end

You are looking for result.serialize(...), I think.

HTH -- tomas

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