VERSION(S):

E-Collaboration 2.1

SITUATION IDENTIFIED IN:

E-Collaboration 2.1 document export.

SITUATION DESCRIPTION:

Documents exported  by E-Collaboration 2.1 are XML files.
This means that certain characters ( & ' " < > ) are encoded.
For example the character & will be sent as &amp; .

Sometimes this is not desirable e.g. when the exported files are sent to a Baan system as an EDI message.

SOLUTION DESCRIPTION:

The coding of characters in the E-Collaboration output can be disabled by making 2 changes to the 
"Mapping XSL File" as specified in the "Send method".

Use a new name space (xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform") to indicate the use of XSLT instead of 
normal XSL.
Disable character coding (in XSL terms disable output escaping).
This can be done in two ways:
First use the attribute disable-output-escaping="yes" inside the xsl:value-of or xsl:text methods.
Or alternatively set output to text by adding the following tag 'xsl:output' just after the starting tag 'xsl:stylesheet'. 

The beginning of a XSL file that makes use of XSLT to disable character encoding looks e.g. like this:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" > 
<xsl:output method="text"/>

Whereas the beginning of a XSL file which does not make use of XSLT looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">


To make use of XSLT an upgrade from MSXML2 (the parser supplied with E-Collaboration2.1) to MSXML3 is necessary
because MSXML2 does not fully support XSLT.

The following steps are required to install MSXML3 on the Webserver:

1 Put all the files of this solution in a Temp directory on the local harddisk.
2 Close all applications, which work with the MSXML. 
       When the installation does not start because MSInstaller is not installed first Run InstMsi.exe.
3 Run msxml3.0.exe and use all the defaults.
4 Run the xmlinst.exe

After this a reboot of the Webserver is required.


The solution can be found on the Support FTP Site.

It contains 3 files.

1 - readme.txt: This solution description

2 - msxml3.exe

3 - xmlinst.exe

4 - InstMsi.exe

ftp://ftp.support.baan.com/updates/E-Enterprise/E-Collaboration/2.1/Solutions/2.1.0.120292.