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I don't have any PI's. Anyway it suddenly started working this morning so I guess IE5 was just having a bad day yesterday... jon > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick JELLIFFE [SMTP:ricko@g...] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:42 AM > To: Hanson, Jon > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Streaming XML back to IE browser problem > > "Hanson, Jon" wrote: > > > > I'm working on a servlet which when sent the url of a data file (as a > GET > > request) will read that file, convert it into our XML equivalent and > stream > > the XML back to the request originator. The servlet works fine but to > test > > it i'm using Internet Explorer (5.002314.1003) - the servlet gets the > > request, reads the file and sends back the xml ok but the browser strips > out > > all the tags and just displays the data (if I do view source I see the > > well-formed XML as expected). In fact I get exactly the same result if i > > rename an zzz.xml file to zzz.html and load it into the browser. This > leads > > me to think that IE thinks my data is not XML. But in the servlet I am > > setting the content type to text/xml and if when the data is incorrectly > > displayed in IE I right-click on the background and get the Document > > Properties up, it says XML Document. > > Do you have a stylesheet PI in your XML document? That can cause the > behaviour you specify: if the stylesheet is not retrievable or doesn't > have the correct definitions, then the default stylesheet for IE5 is not > selected (if my memory serves me well) and the default CSS or XSL rules > will apply. This can cause only the data content of your document to be > shown. > > (Also, make sure there is no whitespace before your XML declaration, if > you have one (i.e. <?xml .... ?> ). This is undoubtedly not your > problem with IE5, but it is a common error in general.) > > Cheers > Rick Jelliffe
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