Re: TopXML Tutorial on XSLT and XPath

Thanks Joel, but you're not quite done yet.  The demo on site is fixed
up but the download zip is not.


Joel wrote:
> 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