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RE: Streaming XML back to IE browser problem

  • From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@A...>
  • To: "'Hanson, Jon'" <jhanson@l...>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:38:40 -0700

ie browser problem
I had that happen to me, once. Never did identify the source of the problem.
The problem just disappeared and never recurred.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hanson, Jon [mailto:jhanson@l...]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:03 AM
> To: 'Rick JELLIFFE'; Hanson, Jon
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE: Streaming XML back to IE browser problem
> 
> 
> 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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