very easy beginner question(s)

Question posted by: kowalsky (Newbie) on July 3rd, 2008 02:55 AM

hi all,
I just started to poke the xml and related concepts. What is not clear to me is the following:

I have an xml file called person.xml and since it is so short and simple I just posted it below:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\XML\minimal.xsl"?>
<people>
<person born="1912" died="1954">
<name>
<first_name>Alan</first_name>
<last_name>Turing</last_name>
</name>
<profession>computer scientist</profession>
<profession>mathematician</profession>
<profession>cryptographer</profession>
</person>

<person born="1918" died="1988">
<name>
<first_name>Richard</first_name>
<middle_initial>M</middle_initial>
<last_name>Feynman</last_name>
</name>
<profession>physicist</profession>
<hobby>Playing the bongos</hobby>
</person>
</people>

At the same time, I have an empty stylesheet, the minimal.xsl posted below as well:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
</xsl:stylesheet>

My question is: why do I get the xml file back whenever I open the person.xml with IE6 on an XP box with SP2.
If I open the same person.xml with Firefox 2.0.0.14 I get the element values in a string with no paragraph breaks just as seen below:
Alan Turing computer scientist mathematician cryptographer Richard M Feynman physicist Playing the bongos.

Now, if I do a CTRL+a in the Firefox browser and do a Ctrl+V here below, this is what I get - which is the thing the author of the book where I got this sample said it will happen.



Alan
Turing

computer scientist
mathematician
cryptographer




Richard
M
Feynman

physicist
Playing the bongos

Why is it not working with IE6 and why the exotic behavior of Firefox?

Thanks a bunch,
kowlasky

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