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Chris Alhambra
Electronic Text Editor
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers



----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Rasmussen <bry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:27 am
Subject: Re:  firefox xslt processing instruction

> 
> -- 
> Bryan Rasmussen
> 
> 
> Quoting David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > 
> >   at work I get this error from Firefox:
> >   Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML
> > mimetype:
> > 
> > 
> > That (usually) means that you are loading the file from an http 
> server and
> > it
> > doesn't have an xml mime type (eg it is being served with 
> text/html or
> > text/plain) in which case you need to change your server config
> > "Content Type"="application/xslt+xml"
> > I don't think a +xml type for xsl is registered (yet) I'd stick to
> > application/xml
> > which works everywhere I've tried it.
> 
> no it's local file system, hence my referring in the original 
> email to 
> > so I changed my registry settings: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xsl]
> > @="xslfile"
> > "Content Type"="application/xslt+xml"
> > also tried several other variations, for example
> > xml+xslt, text/xsl and so forth, no change in the error message.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > or (less likely) you have things set up on your machine so that 
> local> files with extension .xsl are treated as non-xml, in which 
> case you need
> > to change the local settings on your machine.
> however this does not seem to have helped. 
> 
> the original value of Content Type was text/xsl, I have also 
> attempted it with
> text/xml just for a laugh, plus every other encoding mentioned up 
> there,application/xml inclusive. 
> 
> I have also attempted changing the default value of the .xsl key 
> to be
> xsltfile,
> and xmlfile, instead of the normal xslfile, it is however xslfile 
> at my house,
> which is what it generally is after all. one thing that could be 
> causing the
> difference here I suppose is that I have xml spy instead at work, 
> and I not at
> home. I think that is the only difference that could be considered 
> likely to
> affect the situation. When I try to open default.xsl in firefox it 
> tells me
> "you
> are attempting to open a file of type xslfile what would you like 
> to do" if I
> choose to open it in its 'default application' which I just did 
> and I don't
> think I will again today, it starts up an infinite loop that 
> crashes both my
> browsers, in other words it tries to have IE open the xslfile 
> because at work
> IE
> is my default browser (for some reason required) now what method 
> is being used
> for this I am uncertain but first the IE window gets the focus, 
> then a file
> download messagebox opens real quick, and closes, then IE gets the 
> focus, then
> a
> file download messagebox opens real quick, and so on and so forth. 
> it was
> pretty
> funny, as infinite loops go. 
> My xslfile Open verb was "C:\Programmer\Internet 
> Explorer\iexplore.exe"-nohome
> however it should be noted that the Edit_with_XML_Spy verb is also 
> under this
> key. 
> 
> there is a key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xslfile\BrowseInPlace which is 
> empty. That
> could also be problematic I suppose. 
> 
> 
> I will attempt later, perhaps tomorrow to achieve the same effect 
> with various
> forms of Content Type and Key  Default settings to see if it will 
> malfunctionthe same in all situations, but right now I am very on 
> edge and don't dare too.
> plus I should go to training and kick some people around for 
> mental therapy
> reasons. :)
> 
> I installed the newest version of Firefox this morning, however I 
> did the same
> at my house last night, the difference between these installations 
> would be
> that
> the installation at my house was a clean install and the one from 
> this morning
> was updating.  
> 
> So my feeling is:
> 
> 1. it could be a firefox bug.
> 2. it could have something to do with xmlspy somehow.