XSL in IE5

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joshua,

You seem surprised at people adversely commenting on Microsoft's support
for XSL. But people on this list have been getting messages isomorphic
to the one below most days, for a year. Would it be too much to ask that
MS put a big flashing red warning on all their XSL pages warning newcomers
that "XSL" in IE5 documentation does not mean the same thing as "XSL"
anywhere else. So "working in xalan" is guarantee of the sheet NOT
working in IE5 unless some other steps are taken, eg to update IE5 with
msxml3.

MSXML3 looks like it will be a fine product with full support for XSL
but people looking at the XSL support pages at the microsoft web sites
are not very clearly directed to it.

David


From: "Abhishek Srivastava" <abisheks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: XSL rendering on IE 5
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:09:54 +0200
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Hi,

I wrote a style sheet and got perfect results with Xalan.

Now I added the line
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="file:///c:/myStyle.xsl" ?>
below my <?xml version='1.0' ?> line in my XML document.

when i open the XML document in IE 5, it should do the rendering based on
the style sheet. But the result is a complete garbled up rendering. So what
went wrong? My Style sheet should be OK as it works perfectly with Xalan.
Also, since XSL is a standard, a style sheet which gets rendered properly
from one processor should also get rendered properly by another processor.
Is this a wrong assumption ?

Someone, may ask that why do i need this.... Ok i try to find out whether
the client browser is XSL enabled (IE 5, Netscape 6.0) if yes, then i'll
give him the xsl and xml and let him to the processing. if he is not !! then
i'll run my server side script (asp/jsp) to do the rendering.

regards,
Abhishek.


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