XML Rendering Problem

[jamie.ly]

Hi,

I am transforming an xml page using an xsl stylesheet. The results
look fine when tested on my local machine using Firefox 1.0.7 and IE
6.0.29, but after I upload the pages to my server and check them
remotely, the page fails to render in Firefox (it works fine in IE).
Any idea what is going on?

In firefox, it looks like the contents of the xml page are just getting
spit out, and no attempt is made to render it (as if it is not
recognized as XML).

xml page:
http://angelforge.com/jamie/resume/resume.xml

xsl:
http://angelforge.com/jamie/resume/resume.xsl

css:
http://angelforge.com/jamie/resume/resume.css

js:
http://angelforge.com/jamie/resume/resumeFunctions.js

[David Dorward]

ja******@gmail. com wrote:

In firefox, it looks like the contents of the xml page are just getting
spit out, and no attempt is made to render it (as if it is not
recognized as XML).
http://angelforge.com/jamie/resume/resume.xml

200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:01:46 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "66c0c7-172d-43f4d9ad"
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 mod_auth_passth rough/1.8
mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Content-Length: 5933
Content-Type: text/html <<<============ =============== =============== ===!!
Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:59:41 GMT
Client-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:00:20 GMT
Client-Peer: 64.20.42.162:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

Your server is claiming that your XML is HTML and browsers are attempting to
treat it as such.

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[Peter Flynn]

David Dorward wrote:

ja******@gmail. com wrote:

In firefox, it looks like the contents of the xml page are just getting
spit out, and no attempt is made to render it (as if it is not
recognized as XML).
http://angelforge.com/jamie/resume/resume.xml

200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:01:46 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "66c0c7-172d-43f4d9ad"
Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 mod_auth_passth rough/1.8
mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Content-Length: 5933
Content-Type: text/html <<<============ =============== =============== ===!!
Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:59:41 GMT
Client-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:00:20 GMT
Client-Peer: 64.20.42.162:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

Your server is claiming that your XML is HTML and browsers are attempting to
treat it as such.

As David points out, if you want the browser to treat it as XML, you
gotta say so (FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/developers/serversoftware/)

But it gets worse: if you serve it as XML, using XSLT to render it as
HTML, the browser still treats it as XML, so you can't use Javascript
because there is no HTML for it to hang its claws on. If you open the
XML document in a browser and then do a View|Source all you will see
is the XML: even though it has been rendered as HTML, that affects
only the positioning and formatting -- the underlying code is still
HTML, so the Javascript is inoperative.

Unless, of course, someone would like to explain how to do it (I've
been asking people to contribute this to the XML FAQ but there have
been no takers so far, which is why I'm assuming it doesn't work. I
would *love* to be proved wrong -- I'm not a Javascript person.)

///Peter
--
XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/

[jamie.ly]

If you look at the page I posted in IE 6.0.29, you will see that my
javascript works fine: http://angelforge.com/jamie/resume/resume.xml
(for example, click on Microsoft Excel, or the Cancel button at the top
right). I am not so sure about Firefox.

[Joe Kesselman]

ja******@gmail. com wrote:

I am not so sure about Firefox.

The click-an-item is definitely not working in ffox.

Be careful about displaying that you don't know how to write portable
code and/or aren't willing to test for portability; some potential
employers will indeed hold that against you.
--
() ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Joe Kesselman
/\ Stamp out HTML e-mail! | System architexture and kinetic poetry

[Andy Dingley]

Joe Kesselman wrote:

Be careful about displaying that you don't know how to write portable
code and/or aren't willing to test for portability; some potential
employers will indeed hold that against you.

You know employers smart enough to _notice_ ?!

Where do I send my CV? 8-)

[Joseph Kesselman]

Andy Dingley <di*****@codesm iths.com> wrote:

You know employers smart enough to _notice_ ?!
Where do I send my CV? 8-)

http://www.ibm.com/employment/us/

I admit we haven't always gotten it right either. But we care more about
industry standards than most, and we really are trying.

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

[jamie.ly]

The really weird thing is that the scripts work fine when tested
locally. Does anyone know why firefox would treat local versus remote
xml/js differently?

[Martin Honnen]

ja******@gmail. com wrote:

The really weird thing is that the scripts work fine when tested
locally. Does anyone know why firefox would treat local versus remote
xml/js differently?

I don't know why it would work locally but at least for Mozilla your
XSLT generates an XHTML document parsed/treated as text/xml and XHTML is
case-sensitive so your event handlers need to be e.g.
onclick
onload
and not
onClick
onLoad

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Joseph Kesselman]

(BTW, I happen to know that DataPower -- known for their XML/web-service
accelerators, and now part of IBM -- is looking for a few good people.)

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden