Inside XSLT

Using Browsers to Transform XML Documents

Both the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator include some support for XSLT. Of the two, the Internet Explorer’s support is far more developed, and I’ll use version 5.5 of that browser here. You can read about the Internet Explorer XSLT support at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/XSLGuide/.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier does not support exact XSLT syntax by default, so we'll have to make a few modifications to planets.xml and planets.xsl. (You'll learn more about this in the next chapter. There are downloads you can install for updated XSLT support.) In fact, just as this book goes to print, Internet Explorer 6.0 has become available. When I installed and tested it, it does appear to support ...