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I want a quick way to view the results of of xsl transformation on an xml document. I thought that in my xml document I could put something like:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<?xsl-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="match.xsl"?>
then I would have my .xsl file called match.xsl which would do some sort of transformation. Shouldn't I just be able to open up the .xml file in IE and it would use the .xsl file to do the transformation, similar to using CSS?
Thanks
Brian
 
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Just a word of caution - IE is not 100% compliant with XSLT spec. I suggest using a command line XSLT engine like Xalan to generate the output file. Infact if you use the Transform namespace with IE you may not even get any output - AFAIK, IE accepts and works fine with the WD-xsl namespace only.

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Originally posted by Ajith Kallambella:
Just a word of caution - IE is not 100% compliant with XSLT spec. I suggest using a command line XSLT engine like Xalan to generate the output file. Infact if you use the Transform namespace with IE you may not even get any output - AFAIK, IE accepts and works fine with the WD-xsl namespace only.


Can u explain...what is command line XSLT engine like Xalan.what it will do, is it browser like.
And wot is the difference b/w Transform namespace and WD-xsl namespace and how they differ.
Which versions of Netscape can support XML files and does it have XSL transformation.

 
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Hi Anil,
There are a number of free XML parsers you d/l and run from the command line: Xalan, XT, XML4J, Saxon etc
With XT you can type: xt file.xml file.xsl > file.html
XT (and the other parsers) will translate the .xml file using the .xsl stylesheet and output an .html file which you can then load in your browser.
IE5 will has a sort of 'built-in' parser; if seen some examples at http://www.xmlpitstop.com/default.asp?DataType=XMLEXAMPLES Tried
a few of my own files w/o much luck; imagine it has to do with Ajith's response (not sure what the diff is between WD-xsl and Transform .. Ajith?)
Netscape 6 recognizes XML (earlier versions don't); looked at it today but it also would not recognize the XSL ... not sure why yet.
Easiest method is just to use one of the parsers
Hope that helps.

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As to difference between Transform namespace and WD-xsl, Khun Yee Fung explained it here: http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum31/HTML/000425.html
Observation: �WD-xsl" doesn�t work for Xalan, �...Transform'� does.
 
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Yeah i got it..thx for ur responses..which is considered as best command line XSLT engine..?
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Hi Anil,
I don't know if it's the <i>best</i> but XT is certainly easy to use; you can d/l it from http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html
Map ... thanks
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AFAIK XT was the first XSLT engine that was ever written and James Clark is too good. I like XT too!
 
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Well, the first XSLT processor we used was LotusXSL, now called Xalan. I used Saxon for command line checking quite a bit as well. Then I started using XT. I have not stopped using it. We even used it for generating WML and HDML (no kidding!) for some cell phones, with the output engine modified a bit to support <xsl:output method='wml'/> and <xsl:output method='hdml'/>. (At least one cell phone do not support & as part of a URL in WML, so we have to hack it to make sure the character & is used.)
If you are interested in knowing where XT is going, go to http://www.4xt.org. James Clark does not support XT any more.

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Well, apparently UBB is too intelligent to change my &#38; to & in my post. So,
"At least one cell phone do not support & as part of a URL in WML, so we have to hack it to make sure the character & is used."
should have been:
"At least one cell phone do not support &#38; as part of a URL in WML, so we have to hack it to make sure the character & is used."

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Brian!
You're right, it's something like that, but not exactly.
The right string is:
<?xsl:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="match.xsl"?>
(A colon ':' instead of '-' in xsl:stylesheet)
This is a quick and handy way to view your transformation, but works only in MSIE 5
Regards,
Marius
 
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Thanks Marius. I tried that but got the following error (I'm using IE 5.5):
Entity, EntityRef, PI, Notation names, or NMToken cannot contain a colon. Line 2, Position 18
Any ideas?
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