XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Netscape and Mozilla

Netscape 4.x and earlier do not provide any significant support for displaying XML in the browser. Netscape 4.0.6 and later do use XML internally for some features such as “What’s Related.” However, the parser used isn’t accessible to the page author, even through JavaScript.

Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 6.0 and later do fully support display of XML in the browser. CSS Level 2 is almost completely supported, and XSLT support is pretty good too. Mozilla can read an XML web page, download the associated CSS or XSLT stylesheet, apply it to the document, and display the result to the end user, all completely automatically and more or less exactly as XML on the Web was always meant to work. Mozilla also partially supports MathML and SVG. The SVG support is not switched on by default as of Mozilla 1.7, and the MathML support requires some extra fonts with more mathematical symbols; neither of these is hard to add.