Re: Netscape Support for XSL

Subject: Re: Netscape Support for XSL
From: Martin Stricker <shugal@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 19:04:47 +0200
"Altucher, Rita" schrieb:

> My question are:
> (a) What support does Netscape (4.61) provide for XSL and what changes
> need to be made to my XSL, DTD and XML files?
There is NO XML support in Netscape 4.x.

> (b) What happens if a user does not have Internet Explorer for Netscape
> to rely on?
I#m sorry to say this, but for now you have to use another XML/XSL parser
than Netscape. Even the brand new Netscape 6 preview (yes, it's 6, they
skipped the 5) does not support XSL, and I found no information about when
Netscape eventually will support XML/XSL. Sorry, but this is the unpleasant
truth. If you don't want to rely on Microsoft's browser you can try using
xt or saxon with an XSL-T stylesheet to generate HTML which will be
displayed by Netscape. But be careful: XSL as used by Microsoft is not
compatible with the "real" XSL as standardized by the WWW Consortium
(however, if you install the latest update/Preview of MSXSL you get an
Internet Explorer which is about 90% compatible (maybe more, I didn't
completely test it since it doesn't run on my linux box. Could you please
help out here, Jonathan Marsh? I would really appreciate something like a
list of which parts of the specification are still missing in MSXSL and the
features of MSXSL exceeding the specification!).

Best regards,
Martin Stricker


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