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Subject: [xsl] anyone know why the default xsl in IE sometimes manages to process and transform parts of large not well formed documents?
From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:51:05 +0100

Hi,

As per the  subject line. I've often wondered about it and now I have
a reason to actually know why.

IIRC this affects the transformation whether or not one runs the
wd-xsl that msxml dll comes prebundled with as a resource or if one
replaces it with an actual xsl-t using some tool like reshack.exe

To describe the problem more concretely, in windows people often use
IE to tell them if a document is well-formed or not. In some cases
where the document is large IE will transform part of the document,
this causes the document to look correct if one does not scroll all
the way down. I am wondering if anyone knows why this happens in IE, I
suppose the only explanation would be some sort of streaming of the
transform is taking place but not sure how.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen