Re: template match using mode with MS-IE5 or 5.5

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> hi gurus,
> even using a direct example from the xml-bible by Elliotte Rusty Harold I
> could not get
> the template match to work, when I used the mode="something" restriction.
> Right now, I am using only the msxml.dll supplied with IE5.0 or IE 5.5,
> which is obviously also used
> in xml-spy.
> I have worked around with the typical xsl:for-each construction. I have
> looked up the FAQ and
> have followed the digest for quite a while and nobody seems to have a
> problem with it.
> Am I missing something or may I just conclude the the msxml.dll just
> doesn't handle it properly?
> thanks for an advice.

Internet Explorer 5.0's XSLT support is extremely buggy and 
non-standard. If you tried an example in Chapter 14 of the XML Bible 
and it didn't work in IE5.0, complain to Microsoft, not to me. 
Microsoft has posted a beta of the MSXML DLL (Windows only) at 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/webtechnology/xml/msxml.asp that 
supports more (though still not all) of the XSLT 1.0 recommendation. 
However, I recommend that you a third party converter like xt, Xalan, 
or Saxon instead.

LotusXSL          http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/formula/LotusXSL
Xalan             http://xml.apache.org/xalan/index.html
XT                http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html
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