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I am starting to see the benefits of using XML and XSL in Web site development, but my challenge is convincing the decision makers. Their usual responses are: "Show me" (there aren't a lot of examples to be found), "What about older browsers?", and "What's the point?" My company is a book publisher. What benefits does XML have in this area?

I have a limited understanding of XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) and have been trying to figure out how to write an XSL document that will transform a highly de-normalized set of data into a hierarchical XML document. It looks to me like it would be easier to transform the data with a traditional programming language. This data serves as an example of this issue: Initial Data: Parent 1 Key, Attribute1, Attribute2, Attribute3, Child 1 Key, Child Attribute1, Child Attribute2 Parent 1 Key, Attribute1, Attribute2, Attribute3, Child 2 Key, Child Attribute1, Child Attribute2 Parent 1 Key, Attribute1, Attribute2, Attribute3, Child 3 Key, Child Attribute1, Child Attribute2 Parent 2 Key, Attribute1, Attribute2, Attribute3, Child 1 Key, Child Attribute1, Child Attribute2 Parent 2 Key, Attribute1, Attribute2, Attribute3, Child 2 Key, Child Attribute1, Child Attribute2 Desired Transformation: Parent 1    Child 1    Child 2    Child 3 Parent 2    Child 1    Child 2

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I'm attempting to create an ordered list every time the Sequence attribute of a Para element has been set to 'Begin'. The list should continue until it reaches a paragraph with the Sequence attribute set to 'End'. The problem arises because the and are not being properly matched within the XSL document. I have tried various combinations of , CData, and CDATA sections.

How do I design a matrix using XML? This matrix needs to be a separate tree from the main XML tree. How do I communicate between the two trees?

I'm using MSXML to create a DOMDocument and add nodes and attributes. When I'm done, I'd like to save the XML text into a string. Unfortunately, the Save method outputs text only to a file or to an IStream object. I tried to use the Stream object from ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) 2.5 but that didn't work. How can I get the XML text into a string?