Re: Netscape XSL and ' charcter

There's been a definite upturn in questions posed to this list regarding
client side XSLT, particularly vis a vis Netscape. I have to think there is
a recent link that is sending people here. I hope that people who are new to
XSLT understand that you need a pretty solid sandbox to run client side
transformations.

There are practical applications for client-side transformations, such as
apps that are built from a browser's API, or just plain old fashioned
tinkering and learning, but if you're just trying to display XML from the
browser and expose your results to the masses, I would think that the
resources involved (from an expense point) would be better directed towards
running server-side transformations.

Charles White
The Tumeric Partnership
http://www.tumeric.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joerg Heinicke" <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re:  Netscape XSL and ' charcter


> I can not understand, why so many try to do client transformation at the
> moment.
>
> To express it in XSLT:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="browser">
>     <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="@name = 'IE' and not(starts-with(@version, '6'))">
>             <xsl:text>MSXML 2 / WD-XSL: problem</xsl:text>
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:when test="@name = 'Netscape'">
>             <xsl:text>no real support for XSLT</xsl:text>
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:when test="@name = 'Opera' or @name = 'Konqueror'">
>             <xsl:text>no support for XSLT until now</xsl:text>
>         </xsl:when>
>     </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> and so on ...
>
> And from Netscape 6 you can't demand real XSLT. NS 6.0 completely not,
> because the corresponding Mozilla Version was 0.6. NS 6.1 (Mozilla 0.9.1)
> was the first version with rudimentary XSLT support. NS 6.2 (Mozilla
0.9.4)
> is only 3 months newer and of course not perfect. Even with the current
> Mozilla 0.9.9 I have a few problems, mostly with styles. So wait for
Mozilla
> 1.0 or (a few weeks later) NS (I assume 6.3) for better XSLT support.
> Otherwise it's not possible to get nice transformation outputs. Maybe this
> page helps: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/. You can read here:
>
> "But it works in IE". Bad argument. IE has a different understanding of
XSLT
> than Mozilla. IE serializes your output and parses it again, so it
suffices
> that stuff *looks* fairly well to work. Mozilla takes the tree as
generated
> as result. BIG DIFFERENCE, trust us.
>
> At
>
http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/xslt/netscapexsltTOC.
> html you can find the supported and not supported XSLT elements,
functions,
> ... (in theory).
>
> So wait for Mozilla 1.0 or next NS and you will have less problems. If you
> want to try already now, use at least the current version of Mozilla and
not
> one, which is a half year old.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joerg
>
>
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