IE and Mozilla XSLT CDATA diffs

"Jim Harlow" <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:15:17 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.layout.xslt
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

I am trying to migrate an HTML document into XML.  Some of the markup needs 
to remain in the XML as descriptive text.
I do not understand why IE appears to be correct whereas Mozilla appears to 
be incorrect.  I must be missing something.
Thanks in advance for your help and insight.

Jim

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xml
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="file:///c:/teds/test.xsl"?>

<report>
  <desc>
  <![CDATA[
    text before the list
    <ul>
   <li>Bullet 1
      <li>Bullet 2
      <li>Bullet 3
    </ul>
    text after the list
  ]]>
  </desc>
</report>

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xsl
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<xsl:stylesheet
  version="2.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
  <body>
    <xsl:value-of select="report/desc" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
  </body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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IE 6.0 output
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text before the list
  a.. Bullet 1
  b.. Bullet 2
  c.. Bullet 3
text after the list

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Firefox 2.0.0.3 output
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 text before the list <ul> <li>Bullet 1 <li>Bullet 2 <li>Bullet 3 </ul> text 
after the list