[SC.LUG] RE: XML stylesheet support in browsers (was: Exciting news)

[richard at pineger.com]

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> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:32:12 +0000
> From: Simon Ward <simon at mivok.net>
> Subject: [SC.LUG] XML stylesheet support in browsers (was: Exciting
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> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:02:56PM -0000, Richard Pineger wrote:
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> > As a starter for 10. If I design an XML publishing system
> > do I need to 
> > transform the output to XHTML+CSS for the majority of 
> > GNU/Linux based 
> > web browsers or do they all support XML+CSS or XSLT these days?
> 
> I don't know about XML+CSS, but I got bitten (mildly) when
> trying to test server side XSLT processing because it turned 
> out that Firefox 1.5 was applying it client side instead, and 
> I had forgotten to actually return the transformed document 
> instead of the original from the server.
> 
> Given that, I'd say the Gecko based browsers would support it
> (Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany, Galeon), and no doubt KHTML 
> based browsers wouldn't want to be left out (Konqueror).
> 
> Simon
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Thanks Simon, 

that's more than helpful. From another source I've learned that there are some foibles in the XML that these browsers expect that would mean server-side (CMS) transforms so that all the necessary information is included, and client-side transforms (for display purposes). If you would be interested in some XSLT work, probably around the middle of the year, then you could send me some details. 

Richard

 
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