Re: [xsl] Understanding why <tag></tag> is the way it is (was Re: [xsl] IE Client side transformation issue)

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

  >   <b/>abc
> In my tests this only renders bold in IE, not in Firefox or Opera 
> which render it just fine.

it all depends what mime type you send it with. If you send it to FF
with an xml mime type it will parse as XML and so b will be closed before
the text. If you send it with an html mime type, then what you _should_
get is the same as if the input had been >abc with a visible > sign, but
this depends on low level SGML arcane parsing rules and no desktop
browser uses a full SGML parser, so in practice you get whatever you get.


David

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