Mac OS X XML non-existence!!

uoba

uoba

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Am I right... non of the OS X browsers support XML!!! :(

I have been reading up about XML today (it seems very beneficial to web designers/developers) and tested my test scripts and they wouldn't work (Safari, Camino, IE, OmniWeb, Firebird)!!!

Okay, so I tested them on my PC and lo and behold, it worked in IE.

What do I do, who do I go and see!?
 
Well... I tried a couple of tutorials (from www.w3schools.com) which seem very good.

I was trying to figure out how to link/embed text from an external XML (test.xml) file into a HTML file (index.html).

I figured it out (isn't too hard)... but the fruits of my labour refused to preview in the browser (just a very blank table).

As I mentioned, the PC XP showed it just fine.

Here's the URL if you're interested: http://martin.c-o2.net/xmlTest/index.html
 
Well, I've never tried doing something like that before, so hopefully someone else will be able to help you.

I've done client-side XSL transformations with web browsers, but not what you are doing.
 
Hmmm... maybe I'm not doing things in the correct manner then... rendering text in a HTML doc with reference to an XML file.
 
One of Captain Code's points is that what you are doing with XML is a vary small slice of the XML pie.

That said, most browsers do not support XSLT translation on the client side. Look at it as one of the many IE-specific things.

There are a slew of server-side technologies (google for Cocoon for one of the most prevalent) that will perform XSLT translation on the server side, sending the translated HTML to the browser which frees you from browser tyranny. (Well, at least as far as the translation goes).

hth,
bear
 
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