Re: IE5 and XML (was) Re: books & mozilla

>Sooooo, Microsoft made some best 
>guesses of what it would be (or how they wanted it to be) and ran with 
>that in releasing 5.0.  

Yep. They also made it support a proprietary XSL (xsl:eval, for instance,
is IE only).

I've also read that the differences between IE and 
>Netscape implementation of XML will continue the problems with cross 
>browser compatibility.  

The XML itself is not the problem, but the only real way to *present*
XML-formatted data in both browsers is using style sheets (which means that
you can't change the order the data elements are in, just make them look
nice).

Netscape 6 doesn't support XSL. Maybe JavaScript would be a solution. Has
anyone tried using JavaScript to transfer XML to HTML? Theoretically it
should be possible in both IE5 and NN6.

ppk

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