Re: TopXML Tutorial on XSLT and XPath

Hi Christopher,

I maintain the TopXML website, thanks for notifying us about the error
in the article.
I have corrected the main article, xml file and the xsl stylesheet.  I
have tested it both in Firefox and Internet Explorer and all is working
fine now.

My apologies for the inconvenienced caused.

Thanks,

-Joel
TopXML Support
[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.
>
>
>
> 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