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

TIA,

--

Dennis

[Richard Tobin]

Re: Problem with IE6

In article <dgkp14lkh2q3kg a2gb0bed239tds4 2amdm@4ax.com>,
Dennis <nobody@nowhere .comwrote:

>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
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:wq

[Dennis]

Re: Problem with IE6

On 3 May 2008 21:22:53 GMT, richard@cogsci. ed.ac.uk (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.

Thanks,

--

Dennis

[Dennis]

Re: Problem with IE6

On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:54:55 -0400, Dennis <nobody@nowhere .comwrote:

>On 3 May 2008 21:22:53 GMT, richard@cogsci. ed.ac.uk (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?

--

Dennis

[David Carlisle]

Re: Problem with IE6

Dennis wrote:

On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:54:55 -0400, Dennis <nobody@nowhere .comwrote:
>

>On 3 May 2008 21:22:53 GMT, richard@cogsci. ed.ac.uk (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.

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



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http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com

[David Carlisle]

Re: Problem with IE6

Dennis wrote:

On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:54:55 -0400, Dennis <nobody@nowhere .comwrote:
>

>On 3 May 2008 21:22:53 GMT, richard@cogsci. ed.ac.uk (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.

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



--

http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com

[Dennis]

Re: Problem with IE6

On Sun, 04 May 2008 10:51:11 +0100, David Carlisle
<david-news@dcarlisle. demon.co.ukwrot e:

>Dennis wrote:

>On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:54:55 -0400, Dennis <nobody@nowhere .comwrote:
>>

>>On 3 May 2008 21:22:53 GMT, richard@cogsci. ed.ac.uk (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?

--

Dennis

[Richard Tobin]

Re: Problem with IE6

In article <nj7r14tq221ji6 49dkig4dv1dc6h5 d762b@4ax.com>,
Dennis <nobody@nowhere .comwrote:

>><!ENTITY cr "<xsl:text>
>></xsl:text>">

>>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?

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
--
:wq

[Dennis]

Re: Problem with IE6

On 4 May 2008 14:09:21 GMT, richard@cogsci. ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
wrote:

>In article <nj7r14tq221ji6 49dkig4dv1dc6h5 d762b@4ax.com>,
>Dennis <nobody@nowhere .comwrote:

>>><!ENTITY cr "<xsl:text>
>>></xsl:text>">

>

>>>It's a documented non-conformance of the msxml parser that entity
>>>replacemen t 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?

>
>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,

--

Dennis