Passing parameters to an HTML page

[HawkSoftware]

I have a C++ program that has some context information for an HTML page. How can I pass parameters to an HTML page? Thanks, Hawk

[Derek Waters]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean about context information and what HTML page you're talking about. If you've got a HTML control and you're using Navigate() to open a page, you just need to append the CGI parameters to your target path. For example for the page:

http://www.myserver.com/scripts/hello.asp

you can just append parameters to set the variable 'Name' to 'Joe Blow' and 'Age' to 25 as follows:

http://www.myserver.com/scripts/hello.asp?Name=Joe+Blow&Age=25

You need to replace ' 's with '+'s. Also, technically, you need to replace any unprintable characters with escape sequences '%2F'. To find out more, search MSDN for CGI and ISAPI information. Hope this helps. ------------------------ Derek Waters derek@lj-oz.com

[HawkSoftware]

Derek, Thanks for that input. I have just started tinkering with ASP but I think that would require a server right? Here is the scoop. I have a MFC C++ application that uses the WebBrowser2 interface. I am navigating to an HTML file that looks like this: CurrentState.innerHTML = data.transformNode(format.XMLDocument);

The "TransformCurrentState.xsl" needs to parse through the "CurrentStates.xml" which is a database of several dozen elements. The user can identify which element to be parsed but I don't have any way to tell the script which element is to be parsed. Ideally there would be a way to tell this script something like: building=1 floor=1 room=1. Right now I am doing some pretty ugly stuff. I am generating a small xsl file that is included by the "TransformCurrentState.xsl". It works but it feels wrong so I know there must be a better way. Any more thoughts? Thanks, Steve

[HawkSoftware]

That doesn't look to good. Here is the file again: . . . . . . CurrentState.innerHTML = data.transformNode(format.XMLDocument); . . .

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[HawkSoftware]

For Pete's sake! <.HTML> <.HEAD> <.XML id="data" src="d:/NOWTrak/database/system/CurrentProbeStates.xml"> <.XML id="format" src="TransformCurrentState.xsl"> <.SCRIPT FOR="window" EVENT="onload"> CurrentState.innerHTML = data.transformNode(format.XMLDocument); <./SCRIPT> <.BODY TOPMARGIN=0 LEFTMARGIN=0 BGPROPERTIES="FIXED" BACKGROUND="ATMINOWTRAK.JPG"> <.DIV id="CurrentState" style="position:absolute;left=200;top=10;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12;font-weight:bold"> <./DIV> <./BODY> <./HTML>

[Derek Waters]

Oooh, XML. Sorry, can't help you with that, I'm afraid. I know that if you were using ASP (VBScript here, I'm afraid), and you tried to open: http://www.myserver.com/scripts/hello.asp?Name=Joe+Blow and hello.asp contained: <% vstrName = Request.QueryString("Name") %> then vstrName would contain "Joe Blow". As for how you use that in your XML, I'm not sure. ------------------------ Derek Waters derek@lj-oz.com