Re: [xsl] Unable to get Firefox to apply XSL

Subject: Re: [xsl] Unable to get Firefox to apply XSL
From: "Wolfhart Totschnig wolfhart.totschnig@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:26:05 -0000
I missed that you mention that XML and XSL are in the same folder, 
sorry. So, in that case, I don't know, except consider option 2, as 
Martin just wrote.


On 29-03-22 18:20, Wolfhart Totschnig wrote:
> I faced the same problem a year ago. It was part of an issue that I 
> posted on this list (on the 21st of February, to be precise). Martin 
> Honnen, in a reply to my post, surmised that Firefox executes the 
> stylesheet only when it is in the same folder or a subordinate folder 
> as the XML file, not when it is in a superordinate folder. I found 
> this assumption to be correct. So, as far as I was able to figure out 
> back then, there are two solutions to the problem:
>
> 1) Move the XSL stylesheet to the same or a subordinate folder as the 
> XML file.
> 2) Install a web server on the computer and serve the XML file via the 
> web server.
>
> I chose option 2 because, in my case, it was the easier solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Wolfhart
>
>
> On 29-03-22 18:06, Michele R Combs mrrothen@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> This is XSL-coding-adjacent so Im hoping someone knows.
>>
>> Firefox is declining to apply an xsl stylesheet to an XML document.  
>> This is a pair of documents Ive used many times over the years for 
>> demoing how the browser can be used to apply XSL to render an XML 
>> file into HTML.  Last year we had to tweak Firefoxs 
>>  privacy.file.unique.origin setting in about:config but that 
>> particular setting doesnt seem to be present in this latest version 
>> of Firefox, at least I dont see it in about:config, nor anything 
>> resembling it.  Both the XML and XSL are in the same local folder on 
>> my desktop.  If anyone knows a fix Id be grateful.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michele
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