Re: [xsl] document() can not used in IE6?

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Manfred Staudinger wrote:
> On 30/06/07, Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The document() function may be supported in IE, but only if your 
> > security
> > zone is local and not the Internet.  IE for security reasons may be
> > disabling the document() function if you are browsing a page on the
> > Internet and the page tries to do a client side XSL transform.  The
> > document() function however, is supported in the underlying MSXML DLL.
>
> With the document() function you can fetch any XML document, _provided_
> it comes from the _same_ domain (same in Fx and IE).

not exactly the same, though. Firefox does not allow more significant 
paths. I.e., if your XSLT path is 
'http://domain.com/mypath/xsltfiles/my.xslt', then you cannot use 
document() to open something from 'http://domain.com/yourpath'.

In IE you can (but I'm not sure of all versions, MS tends to change 
these things so rapidly....).

In addition, I now suddenly remember that I once had this problem that 
the OP mentioned: using an absolute path was *always* seen as different 
domain by IE, regardless the fact that the domain is equal to the 
current domain. To resolve this, you have to create a relative path for 
IE, instead of an absolute one. (I am not sure this is true in all 
security situations though, or for all versions / SPs of IE).

Cheers,
-- Abel