XSLT processing on IE11? - xslt

Question

What has happened to the XSLT processing in IE11?
On IE8/9/10, you can use:
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var xslt = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XSLTemplate");
....
}
On Chrome/Firefox/Safari, you can use:
else {
var xsltProcessor = new XSLTProcessor();
}
But on IE11, neither of these are supported. Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?

Answer 1

Try
if (window.ActiveXObject || "ActiveXObject" in window)
This worked for me working with IE11 and allowed me to instantiate ActiveX objects since the standard old check was being bypassed.

Answer 2

This works for me on Chrome/Edge/Firefox/IE11
function loadXMLDoc(filename) {
if (window.ActiveXObject || "ActiveXObject" in window) {
xhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
} else {
xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
xhttp.open("GET", filename, false);
xhttp.send("");
return xhttp.responseXML;
}
if (window.ActiveXObject || "ActiveXObject" in window) {
ie();
} else {
xml = loadXMLDoc("input.xml");
xsl = loadXMLDoc("mmlctop2_0.xsl");
if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument) {
xsltProcessor = new XSLTProcessor();
xsltProcessor.importStylesheet(xsl);
resultDocument = xsltProcessor.transformToDocument(xml, document);
var serializer = new XMLSerializer();
var transformed = serializer.serializeToString(resultDocument.documentElement);
alert(transformed);
}
}
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753809(v=vs.85).aspx
function ie() {
var xslt = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XSLTemplate.3.0");
var xslDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.3.0");
var xslProc;
xslDoc.async = false;
xslDoc.load("mmlctop2_0.xsl");
if (xslDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xslDoc.parseError;
alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
xslt.stylesheet = xslDoc;
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("input.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
xslProc = xslt.createProcessor();
xslProc.input = xmlDoc;
xslProc.addParameter("param1", "Hello");
xslProc.transform();
alert(xslProc.output);
}
}
}

Answer 3

You could consider Saxon CE, an XSLT 2.0 processor implemented entirely in JavaScript. This would give you a consistent API across all browsers and would allow you to code using the more powerful XSLT 2.0 language rather than 1.0.

Answer 4

The reason if(window.ActiveXObject) fails in IE11 is because for some reason window.ActiveXObject has become falsy, even though it is still a function. I've taken to being more explicit in my feature detection:
if(window.ActiveXObject !== undefined){
...
}
This approach also covers the case of checking for attributes that are present but not set to a truthy value:
if(document.createElement("span").draggable !== undefined){
...
}

Answer 5

For me running site in a compatibility mode in IE - 11 solved the issue....
Note : This might not be a solution , but I was in a situation where one if my old site was using above mentioned code. But I'm not in a position to Re-code the site

Answer 6

You Can use ("ActiveXObject" in window) which will allow all the IE browsers to come inside the if condition .
Exp :-
if ("ActiveXObject" in window) {
// Internet Explorer For all versions like IE8 , IE9 , IE10 or IE11 etc
}else{
// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
}