13.5. XML and Web browsers: XSL and CSS
One common use of XML documents is displaying them in a Web browser. XML does not specify how the document should be displayed. Some browsers just display whatever PCDATA they find between tags. Try browsing cdlist2.xml. There is no difference between browsing cdlist1.xml and cdlist2.xml since the only difference is that one includes a DTD. If the Web browser does not understand XML it might offer to save the file to disk (Navigator 4.7). Opera 4.01 and Netscape 6 (preview release 2) will just display all the PCDATA in the elements as shown in Figure 409 on page 552.
Figure 409. cdlist2.xml displayed in the Opera browser
Display of an XML document is a common operation, and standards are evolving to ...
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