Re: [xsl] question on support of stylesheet embedding

["David A. Lee" <dlee@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried this in Chrome, and it does a fantastic job ! Which is amazing 
to me because chrome does horribly on "pure xml" files ... one thing I 
keep IE lying around

David A. Lee
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Martin Honnen wrote:
> Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt wrote:
>
> > the spec says that embedding a stylesheet into a XML document is 
> > possible:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Embedding-Stylesheets
> >
> > After some searching I was able to get the cdcatalog sample below 
> > working:
> > (http://www.stamm-wilbrandt.de/en/xsl-list/cdcatalog.xml if you want to
> > click).
> >
> > But it is working for Firefox 2/3 and Opera 9.64, NOT for MS IE6.
> > I found neither negative nor positive statements on IE 6/7/8 support
> > of stylesheet embedding while searching the web.
> >
> > Does anybody now the answer whether any of the Microsoft browsers 
> > supports
> > stylesheet embedding?
>
> It does not look like that is supported with IE. IE 8 when I try your 
> test case http://www.stamm-wilbrandt.de/en/xsl-list/cdcatalog.xml 
> seems to sniff the content and try to interpret it as text/html 
> meaning you end up with a browser window displaying the contents of 
> the first title element in the window bar and a table with only the 
> header row as the contents of the document followed by any text nodes 
> in all those unknown (to the HTML parser) elements like artist, country.