Not a browser issue, just an implementation issue. If your users want
the HTML result of the transformation, you are going to have to change
something. Either the user needs to install the add-on from Microsoft
as mentioned by both David and I, or you will need to code your app to
perform the transformation in some other fashion. Is this data coming
from a web server? If so, you might consider performing the
transformation on the server, then outputting the transformed result as
the result of the HTTP request.
Kirk Allen Evans
http://www.xmlandasp.net
Author, "XML And ASP.NET", New Riders Publishing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073571200X
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-
list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of CROFT, MICHAEL
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:16 PM
To: 'xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com'
Subject: RE: [xsl] RE: XML/XSLT to HTML output
The business issue is that the Customer Service
Representative will click a link that points to the XML document(which
contains the data for the report) and the XML document points to my
XSL
stylesheet(s) which render the XML document and display the output in
the
browser. The output in the browser shows the marked-up XML document
correctly and looks like an HTML document. The Customer Service
Representative wants to be able to save this file and email it. When
you
try to save the file, it saves it as an XML document so of course they
lose
all the markup. I use XML-Spy as an XML editor, and when I apply my
XSL
transformation to the XML document, it shows it as an html document
and
keeps my html tags and so it can be saved as an html document. But
when
transformed in the browser, the file cannot be saved as an html
document,
and so the report is useless to the Customer Service Representative as
an
xml document. Is this a browser issue? What is the purpose of the
<xsl:output method="html"/> when I.E. 6.0 is used, since it seems to
ignore
this anyway. Im also aware this is an implicit stylesheet tag and
even if
I
left it out, it should default to html anyway.
Here is a tested example (Not my report):
Here is the stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="poem">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
<h1>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</h1>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Here is the xml document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="C:\Documents and
Settings\a10037\My Documents\TESTER.xsl"?>
<poem>
<title>this is a test</title>
</poem>
Here is the transformed output result using
XML-Spy:(This is
what Im trying to get with the browser)
<html>
<body>
<h1>this is a test</h1>
</body>
</html>
This result is what I want to see in the browser. But
using
the same stylesheet & xml document, this is the browser result:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="C:\Documents and
Settings\a10037\My Documents\TESTER.xsl"?>
<poem>
<title>this is a test</title>
</poem>
Notice I lose all my html markup....Is there a solution
to
this???
Michael D. Croft
I.T. Developer
Amica Insurance
(800) 24.AMICA ext. 4918
(401) 334.1634 fax
mcroft(_at_)Amica(_dot_)com
-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Allen Evans
[mailto:kaevans(_at_)xmlandasp(_dot_)net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002
11:41
AM
To:
xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] RE:
The source is actually the XML file, so
it
is showing you the correct
listing. However, you can download a
utility add-on for IE that will
allow you to look at the output of the
transformation [1]. The utility
is called "Internet Explorer Tools for
Validating XML and Viewing XSLT
Output."
[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/5
43/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true
Kirk Allen Evans
http://www.xmlandasp.net
Author, "XML And ASP.NET", New Riders
Publishing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073571200X
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com [mailto:owner-xsl-
> list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
On Behalf
Of
CROFT, MICHAEL
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002
11:14
AM
> To:
'xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com'
> Subject: [xsl] RE:
>
> When the browser renders
the
XML document using my XSLT
> stylesheet, the report displays
successfully in the browser, and then
you
> select view source on the browser, it
only
displays the XML document.
It
> is
> not outputting my html tags. It is a
.xml
file, not a .html file.
>
> Mike
>
>
-----Original Message-----
> From:
David Carlisle
> [mailto:davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk]
> Sent:
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
10:26
> AM
> To:
xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject:
>
>
> >
Does
anyone know how to have the
I.E
> 6.0 browser output a
> >
rendered
XML document using XSLT as an
> HTML document.
>
> that's
what
it does. (What do you mean
by
> "output" though in
> the case
of
a browser?)
>
> >
>
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
> you
don't
appear to need to declare the
FO
> namespace in this stylesheet
>
>
> This
isn't
needed as it will already be
the
> default as the top level
> element
is
html.
>
<xsl:output
method="html"/>
>
>
> David
>
>
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