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/**
 * This XML.Transformer class encapsulates an XSL stylesheet.
 * If the stylesheet parameter is a URL, we load it.
 * Otherwise, we assume it is an appropriate DOM Document
 */
XML.Transformer = function(stylesheet) {
    // Load the stylesheet if necessary
    if (typeof stylesheet == "string") stylesheet = XML.load(stylesheet);
    this.stylesheet = stylesheet;

    // In Mozilla-based browsers, create an XSLTProcessor object and
    // tell it about the stylesheet.
    if (typeof XSLTProcessor != "undefined") {
        this.processor = new XSLTProcessor();
        this.processor.importStylesheet(this.stylesheet);
    }
};

/**
 * This is the transform() method of the XML.Transformer class.
 * It transforms the specified xml node using the encapsulated stylesheet.
 * The results of the transformation are assumed to be HTML and are used to
 * replace the content of the specified element
 */
XML.Transformer.prototype.transform = function(node, element) {
    // If element is specified by id, look it up
    if (typeof element == "string") element = document.getElementById(element);

    if (this.processor) {
        // If we've created an XSLTProcessor (i.e. we're in Mozilla) use it.
        // Transform the node into a DOM DocumentFragment
        var fragment = this.processor.transformToFragment(node, document);
        // Erase the existing content of element
        element.innerHTML = "";
        // And insert the transformed nodes
        element.appendChild(fragment);
    }
    else if ("transformNode" in node) {
        // If the node has a transformNode() function (in IE), use that.
        // Note that transformNode() returns a string.
        element.innerHTML = node.transformNode(this.stylesheet);
    }
    else {
        // Otherwise, we're out of luck
        throw "XSLT is not supported in this browser";
    }
};

/**
 * This is an XSLT utility function that is useful when a stylesheet is
 * used only once.
 */
XML.transform = function(xmldoc, stylesheet, element) {
    var transformer = new XML.Transformer(stylesheet);
    transformer.transform(xmldoc, element);
}