From: Abel Braaksma [mailto:abel(_dot_)online(_at_)xs4all(_dot_)nl]
Sent: 19 February, 2007 15:15
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Using xsl:output in browsers, was: Re [xsl]
XHTML html validation
[Snip... some really good stuff was here]
It did not investigate fully, esp. not for IE6, so the
statements above may contain errors. Sorry for that.
One additional point I would make about IE6. If you use
xsl:output with an method="xml" attribute, then also add
an omit-xml-declaration="yes" attribute. IE6 has a known
bug where it has problems with an XML declaration for an
XHTML document. According to the XML specification the
XML declaration *can be* omitted for an XML document. I
believe this issue was fixed in IE7.
For all browsers: when you use a user defined output method,
you receive an error. When you do not specify an output
method, it is XML (as it should). If you specify an encoding:
don't. All browsers support UTF-8 internally, there is no use
whatsoever to limit your resulting characters, possibly
resulting in erroneous or unexpected behavior.
Not quite sure this statement is true based on my experience with
IE6 and IE7. I have never received an error when specifying an
xsl:output statement with IE6 or IE7, however IE6 and IE7 do expect
the output of the transform to be UTF-16, otherwise you may have
issues with diacritics. Something I recently helped a colleague
work through while he was developing a cross browser XSLT.
I agree with Abel, you should only be using UTF-8 or UTF-16 for
output documents. Not sure why people still insist on using
ISO-8859* or Windows-* character sets when UTF-8 and UTF-16 are
required support for all XML parsers and they are widely supported
by many other tools.
Andy.
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