[dba-Tech] MS patches Scroll out of IE

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Tue Nov 18 23:20:27 CST 2003


Looks like Opera doesn't use the XSL stylesheet and just displays the 
xml elements skipping the attributes
I wonder why. Using an old XML spec maybe. Something to ponder but I am 
not desperate to find out.

Francisco H Tapia wrote:

>
>
> This is how the data looks out of Firebird,
>
>
>  The Planets Table
>
> Name     Mass     Radius     Day
> Mercury     .0553 (Earth = 1)     1516 miles
> Venus     .815 (Earth = 1)     3716 miles
> Earth     1 (Earth = 1)     2107 miles
>
>
>
> and this is it in Opera
> Mercury .0553 58.65 1516 .983 43.4 Venus .815 116.75 3716 .943 66.8 
> Earth 1 1 2107 1 128.4
>
> and like this in IE 6 sp1 (which looks just like in firebird)
>
>
>  The Planets Table
>
> Name     Mass     Radius     Day
> Mercury     .0553 (Earth = 1)     1516 miles
> Venus     .815 (Earth = 1)     3716 miles
> Earth     1 (Earth = 1)     2107 miles
>
>
> MartyConnelly wrote:
>
>> Here I composed my own test should work client side just a basic xml 
>> file calling an internal xsl file
>> http://www5.brinkster.com/mconnelly/ClientXML/planetbig.xml
>> and
>> http://www5.brinkster.com/mconnelly/ClientXML/planetsbig.xsl
>>
>> Should see with wrong radius
>>
>> The Planets Table
>> Name Mass Radius Day
>> Mercury .0553 (Earth = 1) 1516 miles
>> Venus .815 (Earth = 1) 3716 miles
>> Earth 1 (Earth = 1) 2107 miles
>>
>>
>> Bryan Carbonnell wrote:
>>
>>> On 18 Nov 2003 at 12:11, MartyConnelly wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Well it isn't IE specific but you need MSXML installed to do the
>>>> transform of the XML via XSL and XSLT to either XML alone or displayed
>>>> with a css file or directly to html. IE installs various versions of
>>>> MSXML as do the OS above Win2000 . And it is an activex object. You
>>>> can put the XSL inside the XML file. I'll have to find an example.
>>>> Netscape 7 is supposed to handle this as well. This is all supposedly
>>>> handled client side not on the server.
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just found this at: http://texturizer.net/firebird/faq.html
>>>
>>> "There is no support for VBScript and ActiveX,"
>>>
>>> So since http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/tryit.asp?filename=cdcatalog 
>>> is trying to create new ActiveX objects, it won't work in Firebird
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
>>> I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They know me here.
>>>
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>
>

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Marty Connelly
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