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Re: XSL working with IE5 and Other XSL processor

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Keith,

I want my application to return XML documents when the browser is IE5 and do
server side processing when it is a browser that does not support XML.  Can I use
one stylesheet to achieve this?

What I noticed is that if I use the same stylesheet with the older namespace, it
works for IE5 but not the newer processors.  But if the use the newer processor,
it works with the newer processor and not IE5.  I didn't make any other change to
the stylesheet except for the namespace.  I am hoping that one stylesheet that
will allow me to do both (without generating XSL dynamically), is this possible?

thanks,

--Michele

Keith Visco wrote:

> Michele,
>
> Actually there is a lot more than just namespace differences. IE implements an
> older version of XSL, either the 19980818 or 19981216 draft, but it doesn't
> implement them completely since it doesn't provide the built-in rules.
>
> Perhaps you can write an XSLT stylesheet that is run on the server that
> converts from the newer stylesheets to the older IE ones, or simply run the
> transformations on the server instead of the client.
>
> --Keith
>
> Michele Lee wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible for a stylesheet to work on both IE5 and the newer processor
> > (e.g. LotusXSL or TransformiiX)?  The problem is that IE5 uses a different
> > namespace than the newer processor.
> >
> > IE5 uses:
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
> > xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/Profiles/XHTML-transitional"
> >
> > and
> >
> > TransformiiX uses:
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
> > result-ns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > --Michele
> >
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>
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