Re: Client-side XSLT containing import/include statements does not work in Firefox

Daniel Frechette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to perform XSL transformations in Firefox (v1.0.3) and IE (v6) using 
> JavaScript. My problem is with the XSL scripts that contain <xsl:import ...> 
> or <xsl:include ...> statements. Firefox stalls indefinitely when it calls 
> importStylesheet(...) on a script that contains one or both of these 
> statements.  The code works well on IE and I get the expected results, but 
> not on Firefox. Does anyone know what I need to do to get this working?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Daniel
> 
> Here is my Javascript code:
> 
> function buildPage(iXmlStr, iXslStr) {
>     ...
>     var xmlDoc = getDom(iXmlStr);
>     var xslDoc =  getDom(iXslStr);
>     html = xslt(xmlDoc, xslDoc);
>     ...
> };
> 
> function getDom(iXmlStr) {
>     if (isIE) {
>         var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0");
>         xmlDoc.loadXML(iXmlStr);
>         return xmlDoc;
>     }
>     return (new DOMParser()).parseFromString(iXmlStr, "text/xml");
> };
> 
> function xslt(iXmlDoc, iXslDoc) {
>     var html = null;
>     try {
>         if (isIE) {
>             iXmlDoc.async = false;
>             iXmlDoc.resolveExternals = false;
>             iXslDoc.async = false;
>             iXslDoc.resolveExternals = false;
>             html = iXmlDoc.transformNode(iXslDoc);
>         }
>         else {
>             var xsltProc = new XSLTProcessor();
>             xsltProc.importStylesheet(iXslDoc);
>             var resultDoc = xsltProc.transformToDocument(iXmlDoc);
>             var xmlSerial = new XMLSerializer;
>             html = xmlSerial.serializeToString(resultDoc);
>         }
>     } catch (e) {
>         // Do something
>     }
>     return html;
> };
> 
> 
> Here is a sample XSL file:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
>     <xsl:import href="http://www.myDomain.com/detailForm.xsl"/>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 

just to clear that up, we do not support FO, I hope you're not trying to 
  get us to display that.

Anyway, are you sure that you're not falling for some same-origin-policy 
thing? (Not that that should hang, actually).

that is, the script needs to run off of myDomain.com. Not file nor some 
other domain.

If you can create a small testcase on the net, that would sure help us.

Axel