Get the correct progid - and latest version - of all objects from MSXML Parser

What this script does:

Based on the MSXML Parser version this script returns the correct progid with the latest version installed on the client. So if you want ‘XMLHTTPRequest’ and the client has MSXML Parser 5.0, Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0 is returned. If the client only has version 1.0 installed then the function will return Microsoft.XMLHTTP.

function name: getMSXMLObjName()

properties: objType: the object you want (XMLHTTPRequest,DOMDocument etc.) override: do not sniff xml parser version MSXMLParser: used only when override. user has MS XML Parser installed. MSXMLParserVer: used only when override. version of MSXML Parser installed.

Example:

// get correct progid for DOMDocument.var objDOM = getMSXMLObjName('DOMDocument');

All objects in Microsoft XML Parser from version 1.0 to 5.0 is included:
DOMDocument
DSOControl
FreeThreadedDOMDocument
MXDigitalSignature
MXHTMLWriter
MXNameSpaceManager
MXXMLWriter
SAXAttributes
SAXXMLReader
ServerXMLHTTP
XMLHTTPRequest
XMLSchemaCache
XSLTemplate

This is the script:

function getMSXMLObjName(objType,override,MSXMLParser,MSXMLParserVer){
if(!override) {
var oXMLClientVer = new XMLClientVer();
MSXMLParser = oXMLClientVer.MSXMLParser;
MSXMLParserVer = oXMLClientVer.MSXMLParserVer;
oXMLClientVer = null;
}
if(MSXMLParser) {
switch (MSXMLParserVer) {
case 5 : {
switch (objType) {
case 'DOMDocument': {return 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0';break;}
case 'DSOControl': { return 'Msxml2.DSOControl.5.0';break;}
case 'FreeThreadedDOMDocument': { return 'Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.5.0';break;}
case 'MXDigitalSignature': { return 'Msxml2.MXDigitalSignature.5.0';break;}
case 'MXHTMLWriter': { return 'Msxml2.MXHTMLWriter.5.0';break;}
case 'MXNameSpaceManager': { return 'Msxml2.MXNamespaceManager.5.0';break;}
case 'MXXMLWriter': { return 'Msxml2.MXXMLWriter.5.0';break;}
case 'SAXAttributes': { return 'Msxml2.SAXAttributes.5.0';break;}
case 'SAXXMLReader': { return 'Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.5.0';break;}
case 'ServerXMLHTTP': { return 'Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.5.0';break;}    
case 'XMLHTTPRequest': { return 'Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0';break;}
case 'XMLSchemaCache': { return 'Msxml2.XMLSchemaCache.5.0';break;}
case 'XSLTemplate': { return 'Msxml2.XSLTemplate.5.0';break;}
default: {alert('Invalid object');return '';break;}    }    break;   }
case 4 : {    switch (objType)    {
case 'DOMDocument': { return 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0';break;}
case 'DSOControl': { return 'Msxml2.DSOControl.4.0';break;}
case 'FreeThreadedDOMDocument': { return 'Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.4.0';break;}
case 'MXHTMLWriter': { return 'Msxml2.MXHTMLWriter.4.0';break;}
case 'MXNameSpaceManager': { return 'Msxml2.MXNamespaceManager.4.0';break;}
case 'MXXMLWriter': { return 'Msxml2.MXXMLWriter.4.0';break;}
case 'SAXAttributes': { return 'Msxml2.SAXAttributes.4.0';break;}
case 'SAXXMLReader': { return 'Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.4.0';break;}
case 'ServerXMLHTTP': { return 'Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.4.0';break;}
case 'XMLHTTPRequest': { return 'Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0';break;}
case 'XMLSchemaCache': { return 'Msxml2.XMLSchemaCache.4.0';break;}
case 'XSLTemplate': { return 'Msxml2.XSLTemplate.4.0';break;}
default: {alert('Invalid object');return '';break;}
}
break;
}
case 3 : {
switch (objType)    {
case 'DOMDocument': { return 'MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0';break;}
case 'FreeThreadedDOMDocument': { return 'MSXML2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.3.0';break;}
case 'DSOControl': { return 'MSXML2.DSOControl.3.0';break;}
case 'XMLHTTPRequest': { return 'MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0';break;}
case 'XMLSchemaCache': { return 'MSXML2.XMLSchemaCache.3.0';break;}
case 'XSLTemplate': { return 'MSXML2.XSLTemplate.3.0';break;}
default: {alert('Invalid object');return '';break;}    }    break;   }
case 2 : {
switch (objType)    {
case 'DOMDocument': { return 'MSXML2.DOMDocument';break;}
case 'FreeThreadedDOMDocument': { return 'MSXML2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument';break;}
case 'DSOControl': { return 'MSXML2.DSOControl';break;}
case 'XMLHTTPRequest': { return 'MSXML2.XMLHTTP';break;}
case 'XMLSchemaCache': { return 'MSXML2.XMLSchemaCache';break;}
case 'XSLTemplate': { return 'MSXML2.XSLTemplate';break;}
default: {alert('Invalid object');return '';break;}    }    break;   }
case 1 : {
switch (objType) {
case 'DOMDocument': { return 'Microsoft.DOMDocument';break;}
case 'FreeThreadedDOMDocument': { return 'Microsoft.FreeThreadedDOMDocument';break;}
case 'DSOControl': { return 'Microsoft.DSOControl';break;}
case 'XMLHTTPRequest': { return 'Microsoft.XMLHTTP';break;}
default: {alert('Invalid object');return '';break;}    }    break;   }
default: {alert('No object defined');return '';break;}  } } else {
alert('XML Parser not installed!');return ''; }}

Will post a script later that combines the cross-browser XML Sniffer and this script together. With it you can easily create a DOMDocument in Mozilla or in IE (with latest version of XML Parser).

Written on 07 April 2005.

Get the correct progid - and latest version - of all objects from MSXML Parser

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