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RE: How can I see what html attributes IE thinks it is using?
- To: Robert Stuart <Robert dot Stuart at NFER-NELSON dot co dot uk>
- Subject: [xsl] RE: How can I see what html attributes IE thinks it is using?
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:58:58 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
In case you have installed the right msxml add-ins
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/543/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true),
just right-click on the IE display and select "View XSL output" from the pop-up
menu.
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
--- Robert Stuart <Robert.Stuart@NFER-NELSON.co.uk> wrote:
> No - I know all the sources
>
> I'm looking for the HTML that IE has generated and displayed.
>
> IDE? I'm using XML-Spy
>
> I *could* use ASP to generate the html. I'd rather use the client - it's
> significantly faster that my server. (Also, I want to upload just one xml
> file, and one xslt file, using parameter calls at the client to control the
> views.)
>
> Since my original mailing, I've acquired MSXML. The displayed HTML is
> similar to that displayed by Spy.
>
>
> BTW - I'm using IE 5.05.4522.1800
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 17 September 2001 11:52
> To: Robert.Stuart@NFER-NELSON.co.uk
> Cc: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: How can I see what html attributes IE thinks it is using?
>
>
> > I am using the same xml and xsl files in both XML-Spy and in IE to
> > generate html - but my results look different in the two environments.
> >
> > Spy is giving me the results I expect. IE is not.
> >
> > I have seen similar results where spurious characters have appeared in
> > generated files - and suspect a similar cause.
> >
> >
> >
> > Spy loads the files directly, IE is loading the xml and xsl through a file
> > - index.xhtml (source below):
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE page [
> > <!ENTITY main SYSTEM "xml_file.xml">
> > <!ELEMENT page ANY>
> > <!ATTLIST page id ID #REQUIRED>
> > ]>
> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" title="MainStylesheet"
> > href="xsl_file.xslt" alternate="no" media="screen"?>
> > <page title="XML Main" id="page">
> > <pagemain>
> > &main;
> > </pagemain>
> > </page>
> >
>
>
> Just comment out the "<?xml-stylesheet ... ?>" PI, save and then
> double-click on the
> file in Windows Explorer -- then IE will display the xml source.
>
> It is a better practice not to rely on IE for performing the transformation,
> but
> better use an XSLT IDE (e.g. the Xselerator, which supports not only MSXML3,
> but
> also Saxon and other XSLT processors).
>
> Hope this helped.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev.
>
>
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