Two years ago I wrote a ClearCase license viewer. It wanted it future-proof, so I decided to log the licenses to xml files. At that time my viewer script was parsing the xml, which was fed into it by msie:download object. The download object was rather slow, it was sensitive to Internet Explorer security settings and seemed to behave differently when the page was served, than when the page was local.
I first put the viewer on my pages two years ago, but was not able to make a demo, due to it's reliance on client security settings, so I postponed the whole idea and kept low about it. Recently I needed to log the licenses at work, I dug out the viewer again, and since it worked out-of-the-box, this time decided not to give up on the idea of demoing it. After some struggle I made a demo version that didn't use the msie:download object, instead, the log files were into javascript arrays. Of course this was a cheat, so I needed something better. Finally last month I took some time to copy & paste the parts of the original script into xslt.
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