Problem with IE6

[Dennis]

Why does this page...

http://kowallekfamily.com/genealogy/reports/desc-1766.xml

....display fine in Firefox 2.0.0.14 but gets an error in IE6?

In IE6 I get the message...

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

TIA,

 

[Richard Tobin]

The stylesheet does not contain a document element. The stylesheet may
be empty, or it may not be a well-formed XML documen...

It looks ok to me.

I suppose it's possible that it's objecting to the fact that the
name in the doctype does not match the name of the top-level
element, but that is not a well-formedness error and the document
is not expected to be valid.

Try changing this line

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [

to read

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [

-- Richard

 

[Dennis]

Try changing this line

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [

to read

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [

Still didn't work.

Maybe I'll have to try deleting stuff until I get it to work again. This
used to work in IE6 until I added some stuff recently. I don't remember
the last time I tried it in IE6 though.

Thanks,

 

[Dennis]

Try changing this line

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [

to read

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [

Still didn't work.

Maybe I'll have to try deleting stuff until I get it to work again. This
used to work in IE6 until I added some stuff recently. I don't remember
the last time I tried it in IE6 though.

I deleted the...

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY space "<xsl:text> </xsl:text>">
<!ENTITY cr "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>">
]>

.... and deleted all instances of the &cr;. Now it works in IE6. For some
reason IE6 croaks on this. I might have to go back to using...

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text> (or was it <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>).

Should this have caused a problem in IE6?

 

[David Carlisle]

Try changing this line

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [

to read

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [

Still didn't work.

Maybe I'll have to try deleting stuff until I get it to work again. This
used to work in IE6 until I added some stuff recently. I don't remember
the last time I tried it in IE6 though.

I deleted the...

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY space "<xsl:text> </xsl:text>">
<!ENTITY cr "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>">
]>

... and deleted all instances of the &cr;. Now it works in IE6. For some
reason IE6 croaks on this. I might have to go back to using...

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text> (or was it <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>).

Should this have caused a problem in IE6?

It's a documented non-conformance of the msxml parser that entity
replacement texts have to be namespace well formed, with namespaces
declared within the entity.

I think actually it's anyway better to use <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
as in an xslt context hiding element structure in entities obscures the
program and makes it harder to follow, especially in terms of white
space stripping.

<xsl:template match="bbb">
&cr;
<xsl:apply-templates...

in the above it's a lot harder for anyone looking at the stylesheet to
tell if the white space before and after the &cr; is a white space text
node that will be striped, or a node with non-white characters (from a
possible entity expansion).

David

 

[David Carlisle]

Try changing this line

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [

to read

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [

Still didn't work.

Maybe I'll have to try deleting stuff until I get it to work again. This
used to work in IE6 until I added some stuff recently. I don't remember
the last time I tried it in IE6 though.

I deleted the...

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY space "<xsl:text> </xsl:text>">
<!ENTITY cr "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>">
]>

... and deleted all instances of the &cr;. Now it works in IE6. For some
reason IE6 croaks on this. I might have to go back to using...

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text> (or was it <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>).

Should this have caused a problem in IE6?

It's a documented non-conformance of the msxml parser that entity
replacement texts have to be namespace well formed, with namespaces
declared within the entity.

I think actually it's anyway better to use <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
as in an xslt context hiding element structure in entities obscures the
program and makes it harder to follow, especially in terms of white
space stripping.

<xsl:template match="bbb">
&cr;
<xsl:apply-templates...

in the above it's a lot harder for anyone looking at the stylesheet to
tell if the white space before and after the &cr; is a white space text
node that will be striped, or a node with non-white characters (from a
possible entity expansion).

David

 

[Dennis]

On 3 May 2008 21:22:53 GMT, (e-mail address removed) (Richard Tobin)
wrote:

Try changing this line

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [

to read

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
Still didn't work.

Maybe I'll have to try deleting stuff until I get it to work again. This
used to work in IE6 until I added some stuff recently. I don't remember
the last time I tried it in IE6 though.

I deleted the...

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY space "<xsl:text> </xsl:text>">
<!ENTITY cr "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>">
]>

... and deleted all instances of the &cr;. Now it works in IE6. For some
reason IE6 croaks on this. I might have to go back to using...

<xsl:text>
</xsl:text> (or was it <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>).

Should this have caused a problem in IE6?

It's a documented non-conformance of the msxml parser that entity
replacement texts have to be namespace well formed, with namespaces
declared within the entity.

If I wanted to use entity replacement texts, how would I fix it?

 

[Richard Tobin]

If I wanted to use entity replacement texts, how would I fix it?

You could try adding a namespace declaration to the element
in the entity definition:

<xsl:text xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

You wouldn't be *fixing* it though, you'd be working around
Microsoft's bug.

-- Richard

 

[Dennis]

You could try adding a namespace declaration to the element
in the entity definition:

<xsl:text xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

You wouldn't be *fixing* it though, you'd be working around
Microsoft's bug.

I had to go with single quotes...

<xsl:text xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

.... but that did the trick.

I don't know which way I'll go yet. I just wanted to have the answer
handy for when the time comes to decide. After I finish the initial
stylesheet development I might decide to eliminate the carriage returns
entirely. I want them there now for debugging (makes it easy on the
eyes).

Thanks,