Re: [Off topic?] Netscape 6.0 & XML/XSLT. Any success?

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 AndrewWatt2000@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Apologies if this is viewed as not totally on topic. I felt this was probably 
> a question for xml-dev but that list seems to be down (yet again <sigh>).
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has been able to get any XML-related functionality 
> working in Netscape 6.0 Preview Release 1.
> 
> My experience so far is that there is no XML functionality enabled in this 
> preview release, at least in the default configuration. Applying XSL-T 
> transformation sheets also seems to have no effect on how an XML file 
> appears. Netscape seems just not to "see" anything XML-related.
> 
> Does anyone happen to know definitively if XML functionality is absent in the 
> preview release or, if it is present, is there a way to enable it?
> 
> The help files are full of hype about how good the XML support in Netscape 
> 6.0 is. Those files may be a draft for the full release or just hype. It 
> isn't clear.
> 
> For a preview release Netscape 6.0 seems stable. I would like to experiment 
> with its supposed XML capabilities - if they are really there in this 
> release. :)

The current lizard allows you to manipulate XML either via DOM or display
with CSS. Thats all. See xml.com for some articles on this.

However the source code for the nightly builds now has the transformix
engine in, although there are quite a few problems still. I haven't had
time to download the source and try it yet (the source is 20M, whereas a
binary is 7M).

I suggest people go and vote on the XSLT bug ("Mozilla needs XSLT" or
something like that), the vote count is currently around 40. Obviously if
you care about XSLT in Netscape 6.0, then you should vote. Go to:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18722

(you have to register with bugzilla to vote)

However note that voting is not the only thing you can do - download the
lizard and start testing, writing new bug reports and hacking the code if
you can.

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