Re: TopXML Tutorial on XSLT and XPath

[email protected] wrote:
> It actually got a little worse, or I discovered another bug, when I
> changed the xml:stylesheet  to xml-stylesheet.
> 
> This is the namespace declaration in the samples given at TopXML
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
> 
> However, within the tutorial, on the same page just a little lower
> down, the author correctly states that this is a previous standard and
> no longer works.  (As I found to be true.)  The correct namespace is
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
> 
> So, with the stylesheet declaration changed in the xml file and the
> namespace declaration changed in the stylesheet file, all is well with
> FF and IE.
> 
> Thanks for your insight, and I sent a link to this conversation to the
> tutorial author.
> 

Who added a link to that stuff to devmo? I suggest removing it, the 
stuff I heard so far doesn't make me think we should send people there 
to learn XSLT.

Axel

> 
> 
> Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> Let me see if I've got this straight:
>>>
>>> It doesn't work in FF because FF see's the error but it works in IE
>>> because IE is blind to the error.
>> More or less.  More precisely, as I understand it, IE implemented an early draft
>> of a spec, and didn't fix their code when the spec changed before being finalized.
>>
>> See also item 1 and item 7 at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/faq.html
>>
>> -Boris
>