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At 2006-04-21 23:05 -0400, Karen Dec wrote:
>Hello out there...
>
>I am a newbie trying to learn how to use XSL and CSS to display my
>XML data.
XSLT and XPath questions would be better posted to the following list:
http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
There are a number of subscribers who would enthusiastically respond
to such questions.
There is also an *excellent* XSLT FAQ at:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>I've created a display page for my collection of Amy Grant
>CDs just as something silly to practice on!
Not at all! It works well to learn something new by using data you
are familiar with.
>It displays exactly how I want it to in Firefox. However, in IE 6 I
>have a couple problems (surprise, surprise, right?):
Probably for you ... it is your data you are sending to the browser
that is bad. Firefox is masking your bad data while IE is exposing
it. I'm of the opinion masking bad data is harmful because you don't
know you are doing anything wrong. By exposing the bad data in IE
you have the opportunity to fix the bad data. Had you "gone into
production" using only the Firefox rendering, you would have assumed
you had good data and not realized your transform was creating garbage.
>1. IE 6 displays all my XML data in text format at the top of the
>page BEFORE displaying the XSL transformed version. What is causing
>this?
You are asking it to be displayed in text format, and IE happens to
be exposing it while Firefox is suppressing it.
>It does not happen in Firefox.
It is happening in Firefox, it is just being suppressed at rendering
time ... the page you are creating is in error and the two browsers
are handling the bad data differently.
>2. IE 6 completely ignores the <caption> at the top of the table,
>which displays correctly in Firefox.
I created your files locally from your post and I see the caption in
both IE and Firefox. I cannot think of why it would be missing in
your IE rendering.
>If anyone has any ideas that could help me with these problems, I
>would greatly appreciate it... I'm sure it's probably some simple
>thing to most of you out there...
Indeed ... you are pushing the root node through the built-in
template rules, thus producing the text.
Saxon also produces the text. I suspect that Firefox is too.
Note, however, that all that excess text shows up *before* the <html>
document element, so the IE browser logic is rendering the excess
text and the Firefox browser is suppressing it.
But just because you don't see the text in Firefox doesn't make the
page correct, an HTML page is supposed to start with the HTML
document element, and the result of your transform does not.
>Here is my XSL code in its entirety:
Thank you for supplying that to work with on the mail list to help you.
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/
>Transform">
><xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
Right there! Before the HTML document element you are pushing the
root node through the built-in template rules (because you do not
have any other template rules in your stylesheet). Take that line
out and the excess text will no longer be in your HTML file, and then
IE will no longer display it.
The differences on the canvas you see are the two browsers' different
interpretations of invalid data. Just because you don't see it in
Firefox doesn't mean the data is correct.
I hope you find this helpful.
. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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