RE: [xsl] Diferent behaviour using document() in IE / FF

Subject: RE: [xsl] Diferent behaviour using document() in IE / FF
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:49:48 +0100
This looks prima facie like an FF bug.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antsnio Mota [mailto:amsmota@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 31 August 2005 18:59
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Diferent behaviour using document() in IE / FF
>
> I have this strange behaviour using XSLT in IE and FF.
>
> I have a XML like this:
> <doc>
> <aaa>
> <bbb>ccc</bbb>
> </aaa>
> <ccc>
> <ddd>eee</eee>
> </ccc>
> </doc>
>
> In the client (browser) i load this documento and apply a xslt so it
> results in this:
>
> <doc>
> <aaa>
> <bbb>ccc</bbb>
> </aaa>
> </doc>
>
> Sometime later in the application, i use another xslt that uses that
> document (call it "doc.xml")
>
> <xsl:variable name="xmldoc" select="document('doc.xml')"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="$xmldoc"/>
>
> what happens is that teh content of the variable xmldoc is, in IE, the
> original document, as i expected
>
> <doc>
> <aaa>
> <bbb>ccc</bbb>
> </aaa>
> <ccc>
> <ddd>eee</eee>
> </ccc>
> </doc>
>
> but in FF i get the first transformed doc
>
> <doc>
> <aaa>
> <bbb>ccc</bbb>
> </aaa>
> </doc>
>
> Since i want to access the nodes on the original doc (in this example
> <ccc>), in FF my app won't work.
>
> I'm wondering  what the correct behaviour should be, or is this
> implementation dependent?
>
> Thanks.

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