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Figure 1 Changing the Cursor
  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=vbscript>
<!--
  
Sub SetWait()
  Dim i
  For i =0 to document.all.length -1
    If document.all(i).id = "button1" Then
      document.all(i).value = "Cancel"
    Else
      document.all(i).style.cursor = "wait"
    End If
  Next
End Sub
-->
</SCRIPT>
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>Click button to Display hourglass (except over button)
      </TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>
      <P>Hourglass Displayed</P>
      <INPUT type="button" value="Button" id=button1 name=button1 
         onclick="SetWait()">
   </BODY>
</HTML>
Figure 2 MSXML Detect
  function isMSXML30()
{
    var e = new Error();
    var oXML = null;
    
    try
    {
        // Try to create an MSXML 3.0 object using the version-dependent 
        // PROGID
        oXML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0");
        // Made it here, so this client has the "right" version of MSXML;
        // return true after cleaning up.
        oXML = null;
        return true;
    }
    catch (e)
    {
        // Client is probably using MSXML 2.5 or 2.6;
        // return false after cleaning up.
        oXML = null;
        return false;
    }
}
Figure 4 Extended MSXML Detector
  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
    <title>XML Client Version Detector</title>
<style>
BODY
{
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: x-small;
}
BUTTON
{
font-size: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>XML Client Version Detector</h1>
Click the "Detect XML Version" button below to get information about 
the major XML version installed on this client.
<br>
<br>
<button onclick="GetXMLClientVersionInfo();">Detect XML Version</button>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Compliments of <i>Ken Stanfield</i>.  Enjoy!
<script language="jscript">
function GetXMLClientVersionInfo()
{
  // Create a new instance of the XMLClientVer object
  var oXMLClientVer = new XMLClientVer();
  
  // Display XML client version info
  var sVersionInfo = "";
  sVersionInfo += "MSXML4 = " + oXMLClientVer.bIsMSXML4 + "\n";
  sVersionInfo += "MSXML3 = " + oXMLClientVer.bIsMSXML3 + "\n";
  sVersionInfo += "MSXML2 = " + oXMLClientVer.bIsMSXML2 + "\n";
  
  alert (sVersionInfo);  
}
//*****************************
// XML Client Version Object
//*****************************
function XMLClientVer()
{
  //*********************
  // Public properties
  //*********************
  
  this.bIsMSXML4   = false;
  this.bIsMSXML3   = false;
  this.bIsMSXML2  = false;
  
  //**********************************
  // Private implementation details
  //**********************************
  
  var e = new Error();
  var oXML = null;
  
  // Try to load the most recent version of the MSXML parser;
  // if that fails, try to load the next most recent version, and so on.
  // Always test using the version *dependent* PROGID.
  try
  {
    // Test for MSXML 4.0
    oXML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0");
    oXML = null;
    this.bIsMSXML4 = true;
    return;
  }
  catch (e)
  {
    try
    {
      // Test for MSXML 3.0
      oXML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0");
      oXML = null;
      this.bIsMSXML3 = true;
      return;
    }
    catch (e)
    {
      try
      {
        // Test for MSXML 2.0
        oXML = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM.1.0");
        oXML = null;
        this.bIsMSXML2 = true;
        return;
      }
      catch (e)
      {
        // Stub
      }
    }
  }
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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