Re: TopXML Tutorial on XSLT and XPath

Hey Joel,

As of 5:40pm (June 5) I still received the same errors from the
download available here:
http://www.topxml.com/xsl/tutorials/intro/default.asp

Its link address is:
http://www.topxml.com/xsl/tutorials/intro/worksheets.zip

Hope this helps.


Joel wrote:
> Ahh yes.  That has now been fixed also.
>
> Thanks for letting us know about this.
>
> -Joel
> TopXML Support
>
> [email protected] wrote:
> > 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