Dick4
8th September 2002 17:59 UTC

Distrubuting Microsoft's XML parser?
Anyone have a way to distribute Microsoft's XML parser? I tried doing it the same way as the vb runtimes, but the 2 most recent XML parsers are MSI's, so if the end user doesn't have Microsoft Installer, I'd have to install that, too (which I'd rather not do).

I originally set this install with InnoSetup and was distributing the v. 2.5 msxml.dll, however that doesn't register properly.

With the new interface, I'm going to move this installer over to NSIS, so if that will solve my problem, I'm ok, but I figure someone must have had to install the XML parser before...

MoNKi
9th September 2002 18:53 UTC

You can use msi2xml to extract the contents of the msi file or merge module file, and then install the files with NSIS.

MoNKi
9th September 2002 19:19 UTC

Maybe somebody can code a xml2nsi using as input the xml generated by msi2xml. msi-->nsi. (dream is cost free);)

kichik
10th September 2002 21:13 UTC

What's wrong with the redistributable verion?
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...S/msxmlcab.exe

Dick4
11th September 2002 05:00 UTC

yah, found that last night actually and have been playing around with it (funny what typing "redistribute msxml" will turn up in Google). Gives me the DLL's and an "inf" file...but I'll probly just distribute it as it is...

Thanks...

RobGrant
14th December 2004 14:13 UTC

2 years on...how do I use a cab to redistribute this? Don't I need to set Registry entries and so on? (e.g. like this stuff).

Joel
14th December 2004 14:51 UTC

Originally posted by MoNKi
Maybe somebody can code a xml2nsi using as input the xml generated by msi2xml. msi-->nsi. (dream is cost free);)

RobGrant
20th December 2004 08:47 UTC

Er soo...any answers?