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Re: Safari and rendering XML with XSL

• To: shri kanekal <kanekalsgk@y...>
• Subject: Re: Safari and rendering XML with XSL
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:25:37 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20040115200158.48147.qmail@w...>
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• User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

shri kanekal wrote:

> I am trying to render simple XML using XSL 
> on Safari ( see xml and XSL code below) browser
> on a MAC (OSX panther). The XML is displayed
> without the "table" format simply as 
> John G Doe
> but the XSl shows up fine as an empty table.
> Any ideas as tyo what's going on ?

Depending on how well you copied the code, quite a bit:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="name.xsl"?>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE Names [
> <!ELEMENT Names (name)*>
> <!ELEMENT Name (first,middle,last)>
> <!ELEMENT first (#PCDATA)>
> <!ELEMENT middle (#PCDATA)>
> <!ELEMENT last (#PCDATA)>
> ]>
> <Names>
> <Name>

If the parser validated your XML, it would fail. XML element
names are case sensitive. "Name" is different from "name".
Fortunately for you, the parser probably didn't stumble about
this.

>  <first>John</first>
>  <middle>G</middle>
>  <last>Doe</last>
> </Name>
> *******************************
This one is more serious: the closing tag for <Names> is missing.
I'll assume this is an artefact from copy+pasting the source.

> <?xml version="1.0" ?> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.1"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
> <!-- 
>      ****************************
>      The above line works for IE5
>      **************************** 
> -->
> <!--
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.1"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> -->
> <!-- 
>      *********************************
>      The above line works for Mozilla
>      ********************************* 
> -->
Yuou are running Safari, which is a Mozilla deriate. However,
you left the deprecated stylesheet declaration valid only for
old IEx installations in your stylesheet, while the correct one
was commented out. All in all, the XSLT is a no-op.

BTW
 > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="name.xsl"?>

THere is no officially registered MIME type "text/xsl". The correct
MIME type is "text/xml", unfortunately IEx wont understand this.
Mozilla and probably Safari should understand both "text/xsl" and
  "text/xml".

J.Pietschmann

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