Real World XML

XML Browsers

Creating a true XML browser is not easy because, besides XML, you have to support a style language such as CSS or XSL. You should also support a scripting language such as JavaScript. These are heavy requirements for most third-party vendors, so the true XML browsers out there are few. But there are a few.

Internet Explorer 6

Whether you love or hate Microsoft, the fact is that Internet Explorer is currently the most powerful XML browser available; you can get it at www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/ie6/default.asp (although, like many other URLs on the Microsoft site, that URL might change—if so, go to www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/).

Internet Explorer 6.0 can display XML documents directly, as you saw in Figure 1-2, and can ...