RE: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 in the browser

["Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx>]

> From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 January, 2007 06:10
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 in the browser
>
> Although actually now that I remember there is an addition of
> PI filtering somewhere in Windows, settable via the registry,
> because infopath came with the ability to open XML files that
> had been written by an office application in the correct
> version of Office. This however will still only work in IE
> but it will also work in any XML File opened from the Windows
> Shell, i.e. Explorer.
>
> I doubt that is on the mime type since Windows doesn't really
> do mime types, it does extensions and filetypes. so it was
> probably the addition of a dll to handling files of type
> XMLFile to the registry.

I have a strong suspicion that the PI filtering in IE is done
with a BHO (Browser Helper Object).  Appropriate documentation
can be found on msdn.microsoft.com.  You could probably also
implement a Saxon XSL transform, instead of the default MSXML
transform with a BHO.

Andy.