RE: XML does not work with Netscape

[Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>]

Netscape 6 supports XML.

You need a css stylesheet, though. You can include it with the XML
stylesheet PI.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/ shows you how.

-Mike F.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Brown [mailto:mike@skew.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:04 PM
> To: S. Jyotinarayan
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: XML does not work with Netscape
>
>
> S. Jyotinarayan wrote:
> > I have my XML file. I have used XSL for formatting. When I open the XML
> > file in Internet Explorer, it works fine. But it does not work with
> > Netscape (I've tried with Netscape 4.5 & 4.7). How could I make this
> > application browser independent.
>
> No version of Netscape supports XML and XSLT. If you want to use XSLT to
> produce HTML and have it work on different browsers, you'll have to do the
> transformation on the server and just send the finished HTML to the
> browser.
>
> Also note that the processing instruction with target 'xml-stylesheet' is
> W3C-recommended, but the actual instruction
>
>    'type="text/xsl" href="whatever"'
>
> is IE/MSXML specific. If Netscape ever does support XSLT, it is under no
> obligation to support IE's instructions.
>
>    - Mike
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